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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils extra funding for personnel. The second scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent pupils from...

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The Impact of Cash Transfers on School Enrollment: Evidence from Ecuador

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Ponce, Juan; Schady, Norbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador that gives cash transfers to the 40 percent poorest families. The evaluation design consists of a randomized experiment for families around the first quintile of the poverty index and of a regression...

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Does longer compulsory education equalize educational attainment by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background?

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey—which substantially increased the grade completion rates not only during the new compulsory years but also during the high school years—on the equality of educational outcomes among various...

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Measuring and correcting monotonicity bias : the case of school entrance age effects

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny; Elder, Todd E. - 2024

Instrumental variables estimators typically must satisfy monotonicity conditions to be interpretable as capturing local average treatment effects. Building on previous research that suggests monotonicity is unlikely to hold in the context of school entrance age effects, we develop an approach...

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Measuring and Correcting Monotonicity Bias: The Case of School Entrance Age Effects

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny; Elder, Todd E. - 2024

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Poverty and happiness : an examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana

Ayerakwa, Hayford M.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac - 2015

the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty survey in Ghana, we analyse the factors that influence happiness among the …

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The Implications of Changing Power Generation Mix on Energy Pricing and Security in Ghana

Acheampong, Theophilus - 2017

Despite almost a decade of strong economic growth, Ghana still lags behind in its ability to generate enough power to … power generation mix for electricity pricing in Ghana taking into account new capacity additions to the generation mix and … generation will continue to form the backbone of Ghana’s energy mix in the medium term over the next five to ten years. But this …

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Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance

Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009

While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...

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Caught in the trap? The disincentive effect of social assistance

Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009

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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...

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