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New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...
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In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … education enhances the likelihood of greater socio-economic integration in the host society. We first develop a simple …
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We study the impact of child work on cognitive development in four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries. We advance the literature by using cognitive test scores collected regardless of school attendance. We also address a key gap in the literature by controlling for children's complete time...
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education …: e.g. parental absence due to migration, health problems, and alcohol abuse. These findings call for a greater policy …
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This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …
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youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … change in high school enrollment, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and …
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