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The living situation of the elderly population in Europe is gaining importance due to demographic change. In many European countries, women receive substantially lower pensions than men; gender pension gaps among pensioners can be up to 69 percent. When taking elderly people without a pension...
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Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
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Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards...
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of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … on drop-outs is positive. Analogously, we also observed that an additional grade in primary education reduces the …
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This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention targeted at marginalized low-performance students in public secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by undergraduate students from some of the most prestigious Mexican...
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This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens' education and investigate how the … educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we …
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This paper proposes a theory of education curriculum and analyzes its distributional impact on student learning … outcomes. Different curricula represent horizontal differentiation in the education technology, thus a curriculum change has …
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