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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in public preprimary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high and middle-income countries. This paper estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural communities of Guatemala. Combining...
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the issue by quantifying the regulations imposed on private schools both within and outside school choice programs, and … regulatory burden on participating private schools …
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This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment, using rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000-2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. Results from a...
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Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children in elementary school one additional grade of primary...
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effect of the Great Recession (or any other recession) on schools. Our paper begins to fill this gap. Exploiting detailed …. Our findings promise to facilitate an understanding of how recessions affect schools and of the role policy can play in …
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Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly selected to participate in a … masks large heterogeneity; in small schools, which would have no choice over which teachers would be involved, we find … negative impacts of the training (0.1-0.18SD), whereas we find positive impacts in larger schools (0.06-0.17SD). We conclude …
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schools run by Bharuch municipality. The evidence show that the situation of elementary education is unsatisfactory and in bad … shape. The number of schools has declined rapidly, the learning levels of students are miserable, community participation is … looks very grim. Municipality schools are loosing ground in Bharuch city …
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schools getting an quot;Fquot; grade for the first time are exposed to the threat of vouchers, but do not face vouchers unless … study argues that the threatened public schools will unambiguously improve under the Florida-type program, and this …
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The Milwaukee voucher program, as implemented in 1990, allowed only nonsectarian private schools to participate in the … program. However, following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, the program was expanded to include religious private schools in … 1998. This second phase of the voucher program led to more than a three-fold increase in the number of private schools and …
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