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Impact of School Quality on Child Labor and School Attendance : The Case of CONAFE Compensatory Education Program in Mexico
Rossi, Maria Christina; Rosati, Furio C. - 2014
This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little...
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Vietnam's extraordinary performance in the PISA assessment : a cultural explanation of an education paradox
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Perera, Liyanage Devangi H.; … - 2020
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) - consistently high student achievement despite being the poorest of all participating countries and a centralized education system. We first document...
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e-learning in higher institutions and secondary schools during Covid-19 : crisis solving and future perspectives
Brozović, Mateja; Ercegović, Marina; Meeh-Bunse, Gunther - In: Business systems research : a system view accross … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 45-71
Background: The pandemic of Covid-19 brought significant changes to the education system and forcibly accelerated the process of digitizing teaching. Students and educators had to adapt to the new way of education, facing challenges such as technical problems and a lack of technical skills and...
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Do longer school days improve student achievement? : evidence from Colombia
Hincapie, Diana - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school days on student achievement in Colombia. To identify the impact of … policy for increasing student achievement, particularly for the lowest-income students in Colombia and other developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457677
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Profesionalización Docente Y La Calidad De La Educación Escolar En Colombia (Teacher Professionalization and School Quality in Colombia)
Bonilla, Leonardo - 2012
El presente documento tiene por objetivo estudiar el impacto del grado de profesionalización de los docentes sobre los resultados en la calidad de la educación escolar, medida a través del desempeño académico de los estudiantes en la prueba SABER 11. Para esto, se emplean modelos de...
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Does Better Teacher Selection Lead to Better Students? Evidence from a Large Scale Reform in Colombia
Brutti, Zelda - 2017
In 2002 the career of Colombian public school teachers was significantly reformed through the introduction of a selective entry competition and of further quality incentives. This paper estimates how the new quality-screened teachers impact students' high school performance. We exploit the fact...
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School reorganization reforms : the case of school networks in Colombia
Elacqua, Gregory; Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Santos, Humberto - 2019
introduced in Colombia in 2001 that merged several independent small schools into a single educational institution, with the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098087
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The productivity of Colombian public schools and its determinants from a value-added perspective, 2014-2019 : an empirical analysis
Agasisti, Tommaso; Arias, Juliana; Bernal, Gloria L.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-25
envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …
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Families, Schools, and Primary-School Learning : Evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an International Perspective
Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …, and relatively small in Colombia. A specific Argentine feature is the lack of performance differences between rural and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065973
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Reducing parent-school information gaps and improving education outcomes : evidence from high-frequency text messages
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; … - 2021
We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in Chile to test the effects and behavioral changes triggered by a program that sends attendance, grade, and classroom behavior information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09...
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