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Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647668
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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
García, Jorge Luis - 2017
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956027
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The life-cycle benefits of an influential early childhood program
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016
This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595977
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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741826
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Does Compulsory Schooling Exacerbate Son-Preference Practice? Evidence From China
Zhao, Lilac Zihui - 2022
Government policies may alter cultural practices that persist in part due to economic incentives. In this paper, I develop a conceptual framework that shows how compulsory schooling affects parental incentives and exacerbates pre-existing son-preferences in China. I make six testable predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090326
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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
schools, this study offers important evidence on their effectiveness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434576
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Incentives for teacher relocation : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2013
teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in … the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools … recipient schools close to the distance threshold. Further analysis suggests that these gains were not merely the result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208527
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The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools : Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Fasos
Kazianga, Harounan - 2017
discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to … 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in non …-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start school on time, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965144
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Ability grouping and student performance : experimental evidence from middle schools in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2023
This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an average learning gain of 0.08 of a standard deviation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474559
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The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria
Ochmann, Sophie; Owolabi, Kehinde Elijah; … - 2021
year after implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools' infrastructure, educational attainment or learning … implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools' infrastructure, educational attainment or learning outcome measures. Our …
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