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education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …
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This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic...
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potential to cut short students’ education and increase the likelihood that they themselves will be incarcerated. The struggle …
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This study describes the design and the ex-ante evaluation of an Intercultural Bilingual Education1 Program in the …
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slum children is much lower than that of children in Delhi as a whole. Parental perception of education and financing … education are the major constraints. Even if children are attending schools, the majority of them are over-aged. There are both …
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explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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