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classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family …
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randomly with respect to family background, and we demonstrate that this is true in our data. Moreover, we show that … neighborhood characteristics, and therefore the family background of students. The estimated peer effect may capture unobserved … within schools are in fact formed more or less randomly with respect to family background characteristics (other than …
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Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian...
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Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many countries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term)...
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