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The Effect of Village-Based Schools : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
Burde, Dana - 2012
provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106644
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The effect of village-based schools : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Afghanistan
Burde, Dana; Linden, Leigh L. - 2012
provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537725
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Family background, gender and cohort effects on schooling decisions
Valbuena, Javier - 2011
(BHPS) on different birth cohorts to analyze the relevance of family background, in particular parental education, and … gender on differential educational achievement. We find parents' education attainments to be strong predictors of the … education of their offspring. In particular, maternal education is the main determinant on the decision of whether stay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151667
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Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence from Random High School Assignment in South Korea
Lee, Kyoung Hoon - 2021
To the extent that school assignments/choices are endogenous, it is hard to conduct good experimental research on single-sex schooling. Thus, there is little large-scale empirical evidence on the long-term effects of single-sex schools in many developed countries. I explore the causal effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313930
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Infrastructure and girls' education : bicycles, roads, and the gender education gap in India
Seebacher, Moritz - 2022
How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417271
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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education
Contreras, Dante - 2002
at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369224
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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398725
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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404529
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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education
Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002
at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611938
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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education
Contreras, Dante - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002
at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357706