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preschool children over the summer break in Peru. In response to learning losses during school closures induced by COVID-19 …We evaluate the effects of a 10-week intervention that randomly provided access to remote coaching to parents of …, education coaches offered guidance and encouragement to parents in activities designed to accelerate the development of core …
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positive effects on children's prosocial behavior, self-awareness, and cognitive learning. The intervention also had an impact … children ages 3 to 6. Given the context of COVID-19, the original design was adapted as a hybrid model, alternating in … the children's caregivers compared with those in the control group. Treated caregivers had better stimulation practices …
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This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child’s effort and the … parents was provided de-tailed information about their child’s academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a …
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We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...
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In this paper we use a Multi-Cutoff Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate spillover effects of students enrolled into Peruvian public magnet schools, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento (COAR), on educational outcomes of younger students in their schools of origin. Using administrative data...
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This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...
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To obtain reliable estimates of the effects of single-sex education, I exploit the random assignment of students to single-sex and coeducational schools in South Korea. The results suggest that single-sex schooling is beneficial for girls in math, but has no effects for boys. Moreover,...
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- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within …
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