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Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in … post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus …
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nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This …Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a …
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Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments … education, and their general equilibrium effects. We calibrate the model to fit cross-country evidence on demographics and … mortality rates, explain most of the differences. We also use the model to the role of public education and the HIV …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded …
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out of a development trap. …
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out of a development trap. …
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing...
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One of the biggest challenges facing the education system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is bridging the gap between the … current state of higher education and the demand for research, innovation and a robust STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering …, Mathematics) curriculum. Higher education instiutions (HEIs) face poor R&D infrastructure while companies struggle with limited …
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