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Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive … of education for all. Universal primary education requires increased efficiency of educational spending by donors and …
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achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone …
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Lack of adequate childcare is a main reason women cite for not participating in the labor force. We investigate the effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero-cost childcare - on different maternal labor participation...
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To improve the country's standing on achieving the Millennium Development Goals on Education and Education for All … two major issues regarding universal primary education, viz., late school entry and dropping out before completion of … elementary, which are tied to a variety of factors related to demand for education. This paper focuses on a select few that …
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This paper combines data from a government programme providing broadband access to primary schools in Ireland with survey microdata on schools', teachers' and pupils use of the internet to examine the links between public subsidies, classroom use of the internet and educational performance....
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This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the … educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we …
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of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … on drop-outs is positive. Analogously, we also observed that an additional grade in primary education reduces the …
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It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form “loyal … citizens” and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected … category of expenditure are consistent with the role of indoctrination of public primary education. …
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Bangladesh consists of wetlands that pose great threat to the public primary education services. BRAC (Building … by implementing boat schools model in solving barriers of such uninterrupted education. This case focuses in dealing … development. Thus, BRAC boat schools appear to bring blessings for children in accessing their basic right of education to …
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This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon....
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