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We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...
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Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …
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Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …
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Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …
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, while electoral boundaries are viewed as malleable under federal law, school district boundaries are not. In light of these … school desegregation based on a principle focused on reducing socioeconomic isolation in schools. This democratic principle … attends a school with a low-income student majority. Under this principle, school district boundaries are not sacrosanct and …
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states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel … data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in the provision of school resources. The effects are identified … using staggered timing of state elections. We find that rulers allocate more primary school resources in the years preceding …
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East Germany. Difference-in-differences estimations show that high school closures between 1992 and 2010 triggered a …
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