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Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we estimate the effect of school autonomy from within …
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evidence on the socioeconomic consequences of and methods to reduce of teenage pregnancy in the developing world. The review …
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A straightforward way of keeping children in school is increasing the duration of compulsory education. Evidence of the impact of this type of policy in Western countries is abundant. However, its effectiveness has been rarely tested in low-income countries. Using panel data of low-income and...
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Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics episodes have impacted school dropouts in developing countries, considering 623 epidemics episodes across countries from 1970 to 2019. Our estimates...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
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in test preparation, they respond more aggressively. Therefore, the probability of admission of a higher-income student … becomes even higher than that of a low-income student. In the context of developing markets, we study implications of a … student welfare. However, a large transfer may reduce student welfare …
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production ; international student achievement tests ; panel estimation …Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel …
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production ; international student achievement tests ; panel estimation …Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … conducive to student achievement in well-developed systems but detrimental in low-performing systems. We construct a panel …
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