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A Better Vision for Development : Eyeglasses and Academic Performance in Rural Primary Schools in China

Glewwe, Paul - 2016

' education, and economic factors (expenditures per capita and price) significantly affect whether children wear eyeglasses in the …

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The Impact of a Senior High School Tuition Relief Program on Poor Junior High School Students in Rural China

Chen, Xinxin - 2018

A significant gap remains between rural and urban students in the rate of admission to senior high school. One reason for this gap may be high tuition and other school fees at the senior high school level. By reducing student expectations of attending high school, high tuition and school fees...

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Is rented accommodation a good choice for primary school students' academic performance? : evidence from rural China

Long, Wenjin; Pang, Xiaopeng; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Zeng, Junxia - In: China economic review : an international journal 62 (2020), pp. 1-14

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The Impact Evaluation of School Feeding Programs on the Internal Effectiveness of Rural Public Primary School : Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Senegal

Sokhna, Ousmane - 2014

significant decrease in school dropout, particularly for girls. Also, providing foods to children at school reduces early dropout …

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Urban and Rural Differences in Primary School Attendance : An Empirical Study for Tanzania

Reilly, Barry; Al-Samarrai, Samer - 2001

There is evidence of growing disparities in primary schooling rates between urban and rural areas in Tanzania. This paper presents empirical estimates for the determinants of primary school attendance in Tanzania for the early 1990s, and provides a comparison of attendance rates between the...

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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the Matriculation of Junior High School Students into Rural China's High Schools

Li, Fan; Song, Yingquan; Yi, Hongmei; Wei, Jianguo; … - 2015

The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged...

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The effect of primary school absence and closure on inward and outward flows of families

Elshof, Hans; Haartsen, Tialda; Mulder, Clara Helena - In: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie : TESG 106 (2015) 5, pp. 625-635

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Neighbourhood, school and family determinants of children's aspirations in primary school

Flouri, Eirini; Tsivrikos, Dimitrios; Akhtar, Reece; … - In: Journal of vocational behavior 87 (2015), pp. 71-79

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Academic achievement among immigrant children in Irish primary schools

McGinnity, Frances; Darmody, Merike; Murray, Aisling - 2015

unequally distributed across different groups of children, including those from immigrant backgrounds. The impact of parents …' and their children's cultural capital on student grades and educational ambitions has been identified in both longitudinal …-year-old immigrant children from different national groups using data from the child cohort of the Growing Up in Ireland …

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The gender gap in educational attainment in India : how much can be explained?

Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 39 (2002) 2, pp. 25-53

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