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In 2011, a large university in Tehran launched a policy of gender separation at classroom level without publicly …-sex schooling, this paper addresses the dearth of the research in the context of higher education as well as the context of Muslim …-majority countries where single-sex education is prevalent. Empirical findings show that when students’ characteristics and educational …
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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 …
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that the program increased the ratio of computers per student from 0.12 to 1.18 in treatment schools. This expansion in …
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One of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals−gender parity in all levels of education−is widely considered to … ineffective in narrowing the gender gaps in academic performance and intrahousehold allocation of education resources. Gender … have been attained. However, measuring gender parity only through school enrollment is misleading, as girls may lag behind …
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-confidence among girls is long lasting and implies that gender gaps in self-confidence can be a result of the competitive environment …
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In order to correct for the initial gender blindness of the Paris Declaration and related aid modalities as general and … sector budget support, it has been proposed to integrate a gender dimension into budget support entry points. This paper … studies the effectiveness of (joint) gender working groups and the integration of sex-disaggregated indicators and targets in …
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In this paper, I examine whether the "role model effect" of female politicians on adolescent girls' school enrollment comes only from female representation in the lowest level of local government. To do this, I exploit variation in the implementation of seat quotas for women applied to a...
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Parents can play a crucial role in children's learning, particularly when children are out of school or during times of school closures. In this study, we evaluate the impacts of two distance educational interventions, which directly involved parents and were delivered via basic mobile phones,...
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Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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