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Tailoring instruction to improve mathematics skills in preschools : a randomized evaluation
Gallego, Francisco A.; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Alfonso, … - 2018
Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have successfully implemented this approach. In this paper, we present the results of a randomized evaluation of a program that uses an inquiry with an individualized scaffolding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882683
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High-quality early-childhood education at scale : evidence from a multisite randomized trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - 2023
We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low … household production model suggests that the possibility of jointly supplying parenting to twins helps explain those differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339672
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Can community information campaigns improve girls' education?
Cotton, Christopher; Nanowski, Jordan; Nordstrom, Ardyn; … - 2020
We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The … multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183648
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The effect of Fe y Alegria on school achievement : exploiting a school lottery selection as a natural experiment
Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016
Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595196
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023424
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Effects of skills training on employment and livelihood outcomes : a randomized controlled trial with young women in Ghana
Frohnweiler, Sarah; Adongo, Charles A.; Beber, Bernd; … - 2024
We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051679
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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2004
's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320030
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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?
Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541013
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Parental involvement and education outcomes of their children
Kantova, Klara - 2022
relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of …. The education outcome is represented by a binary variable denoting whether the respondent completed high school or not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807274
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Inequalities in educational outcomes : how important is the family?
Bredtmann, Julia; Smith, Nina - 2016
In this paper, we investigate sibling correlations in educational outcomes, which serve as a broad measure of the importance of family and community background. Making use of rich longitudinal survey and register data for Denmark, our main aim is to identify the parental background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571864