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The nutrition-learning nexus : evidence from Indonesia

Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of nutritional status on subsequent educational achievements for a large sample of Indonesians children. I use a long term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator in order to control for possible correlation...

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Could education promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?

Attar, Mayssun el - 2009

This paper explores Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants, with a particular focus on the role of education. Understanding the factors that shape attitudes towards peace is important in order to be successful in negotiations or in implementing a peace agreement....

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Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania

Klejnstrup Ritter, Ninja; Lincoln, Joel Silas - 2018

In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data...

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Setting an example? : spillover effects of Peruvian magnet schools

Bedoya, Mariel; Gonzaga, Bruno; Herrera, Alejandor; … - 2019

In this paper we use a Multi-Cutoff Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate spillover effects of students enrolled into Peruvian public magnet schools, Colegios de Alto Rendimiento (COAR), on educational outcomes of younger students in their schools of origin. Using administrative data...

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Gender differentials in maths test scores in MENA countries

Badr, Menshawy; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2012

This paper investigates gender inequality of academic achievement using mean and quantile decomposition analysis in eight selected MENA countries. We use data from TIMSS 2007 to decompose the test scores gap between boys and girls at the eighth grade. There is a mixed picture of gender...

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Determinants of educational attainment in MENA

Badr, Menshawy; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2012

This study examines the determinants of educational outcome in eight selected MENA countries. The complicated structure of the TIMSS data has been considered carefully during all the stages of the analysis employing plausible values and jackknife standard error technique to accommodate the...

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Foundational mathematics and reading skills of Filipino students over a generation

Igarashi, Takiko; Suryadarma, Daniel - 2021

Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and reading skills. The inability of an educational system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we take advantage of three rounds of a nationally...

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Intended vs. unintended consequences of migration restriction policies : evidence from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Makovec, Mattia; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa; Sandi, Matteo; … - 2016 - This version: 15 October 2016

We study the consequences of a series of migration policies that restricted the migration of Indonesian female domestic workers towards traditional destinations, namely Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Our difference-in-differences specification exploits the differential impact across Indonesian...

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Two decades of structural transformation and dynamics of income equality in indonesia

Dartanto, Teguh; Zheng Wen Yuan, Edith; Sofiyandi, Yusuf - 2017

and inequality in Indonesia by applying Theil’s L decomposition (both static and dynamic) to the National Socio … been seen in other developing countries, Indonesia has experienced an agriculture–service transition, before the industry … sector has matured. Moreover, the Inverted U Kuznet curve exists in Indonesia. Inequality will increase in tandem with an …

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A note on the causal link between education and health : evidence from the German short school years

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education on health. Controlling for cohort, school track and Federal states fixed effects, which fully control for the assignment into treatment, reveals no differences in body weight,...

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