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This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and exploit the geographic and time variation induced by its...
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mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
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This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
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This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It has substantial beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor...
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The phenomenon of son preference in the People's Republic of China and throughout much of Asia has been well documented. However, changing economic conditions, such as increases in educational attainment and employment opportunities for women and the rise in the prevalence of one-child families,...
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This paper studies the effect of longer school days - induced by voluntary all-day programs in German primary schools …
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Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This paper …-performing schools, while funding remains public. Exploiting the staggered expansion of English Sponsor-led academies since the early …, on average, better paid, and more likely to come from outstanding schools. The takeover also induces teacher sorting …
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As women increasingly entered the labor force throughout the late 20th century, the challenges of balancing work and family came to the forefront. We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to...
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Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...
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schools at the top and bottom of their respective district rankings. We find that BRN improved learning outcomes for schools … in the bottom two deciles of their districts. However, the program also led schools to strategically exclude students …
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