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Institutional Determinants of Student Achievement - Microeconometric Evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698340
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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence
Link, Susanne - 2013
effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744092
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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282424
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues? : evidence from a top university in Brazil
Motte, Henrique Z.; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2021
Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives … students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608537
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The effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala
Ham, Andrés; Vazquez, Emmanuel; Yáñez-Pagans, Mónica - 2023 - This version: February 2023
used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468088
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More schooling and more learning? : effects of a three-year conditional cash transfer program in Nicaragua after 10 years
Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, … - 2013
significant and substantial gains in both math and language achievement scores, an approximately one-quarter standard deviation … increase in learning outcomes for the now young men. Hence in Nicaragua, schooling and achievement gains coincided, implying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303245
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Teacher pay and student performance : evidence from the Gambian hardship allowance
Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - 2014
teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …
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
the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools …) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil-qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208527
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Assessing the long-term effects of conditional cash transfers on human capital : evidence from Colombia
Baez, Javier E.; Camacho, Adriana - 2011
raises the need to further explore policy actions to couple CCT's objective of increasing human capital with enhanced … learning. -- Conditional Cash Transfers ; school completion ; academic achievement ; learning outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308106
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Impact of an educational demand-and-supply policy on girls’ education in West Africa : heterogeneity in income, school environment and ethnicity
Fatoke-Dato, Mafaïzath A. - 2015
The present paper measures the impact of an educational demand-and-supply side policy in a developing country, Benin … reveal that the policy has lead to a huge increase in enrollment and attendance of birth cohorts of children eligible for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286030