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Compulsory kindergarten education and early-teenage literacy in the Philippines

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M.; Francisco, Kris A. - 2023

created a nontrivial discontinuity in the propensity of kindergarten school attendance among different cohorts of children … achievement using a large-scale natural experiment in the Philippines. In 2012, the Philippine government mandated compulsory … kindergarten attendance for children aged five years or older prior to enrolling in the country's basic education cycle. This …

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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani …

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Managing to Learn

Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …

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Effects of Education Policies and Institutions on Student Performance

Hong, Jieun - 2015

decisions has an ambiguous effect. Considering that country-level institutions interact with school autonomy, the performance of …

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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia

Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in...

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Human capital investment strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...

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Assessing the Returns to Education in Georgia

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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe

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Human Capital for Growth : Possible Steps Towards an Upgrade of the Italian Education System

Cipollone, Piero; Montanaro, Pasqualino; Sestito, Paolo - 2012

The problems of Italy’s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students’ proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...

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Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England and Wales : what do we know?

Manning, Alan (contributor); … - 2006

children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and … determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The …

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