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Education Policy Reforms and the Quality of the School System: A Field Study of Primary Schools in Madhya Pradesh, India
Leclercq, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2003
Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing the state …. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves more emphasis …. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low quantity and poor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708960
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Education policy reforms and the quality of the school system : a field study of primary schools in Madhya Pradesh, India
Leclercq, François - DIAL - 2003
(english) Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing … 2002. Substantial progress has been made in enrolling underprivileged children, but the quality of education now deserves … more emphasis. Indeed, the ‘education guarantee’ offered is incomplete, as the schools under study are affected by low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094523
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273804
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013060
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The impact of teachers’ wages on students’ performance in the presence of heterogeneity and endogeneity. Evidence from Brazil.
Maresa, SPRIETSMA; Fabio, WALTENBERG - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
In this paper we estimate the effect of teachers’ wages on students’ achievement in a developing country. We use test scores of pupils enrolled in the 8th grade of primary school, surveyed in 2001 in Brazil. We regress individual student test scores on gross monthly teacher wages allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984716
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Formando microempresarias: los servicios de desarrollo de negocio para reforzar el impacto de los microcréditos
Artiñano, Olga Biosca - Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad … - 2014
Recent microfinance crises have put into question the effectiveness of microfinance for poverty alleviation. In this context, non-financial services supplied by microfinance institutions re-emerge as a mechanism to strengthen microfinance’s effect on wellbeing through human capital formation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891616
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which are less accurate than time-diary data. However, most time-diary data sets do not contain outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764587
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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK
Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126604
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Access All Areas? The Impact of Fees and Background on Student Demand for Postgraduate Higher Education in the UK
Wales, Philip - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607592
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959739