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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Pritchett, Lant - 2013

Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...

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Wheels of change : transforming girls' lives with bicycles

Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; … - 2022

Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 3 km from the...

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Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania

Cilliers, Jacobus - 2019

In 2013, Tanzania introduced "Big Results Now in Education", a low-stakes accountability program that published both nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify the impacts of the reform using a...

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The Effect of Urban Violence on Student Achievement in Medellin, Colombia

Haugan, Gregory - 2017

This paper examines the impact of urban violence on the standardized test scores of public school students in Medellin. I use the school-level variation in exposure to local homicides for years 2004-2013 in a model that includes school and year fixed effects, allowing me to control for the...

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Informal Fee Elimination and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambia

Giordono, Leanne - 2016

Informal school fees – for uniforms, books, and other supplies – are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated informal fees for girls in a subset of Gambian secondary schools. The program is unique because it...

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Making the Grade : The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures

Kerwin, Jason - 2020

measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother-tongue literacy program. The program raises reading scores by 0.64SDs and …

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Access to Schools & Intergenerational Human Capital : Evidence from India

Sunder, Naveen - 2018

over 50 million children and prioritized districts with below-average female literacy rates. This structure facilitates a … literacy cutoff. In the analysis I combine data from multiple nationally representative household surveys with unique archival … information. The results show that DPEP increased school access, enrollment, literacy and completed education for both male and …

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The Effects of Elite Public Colleges on Primary and Secondary Schooling Markets in India

Jagnani, Maulik - 2018

We present the first estimates of the effects of higher education investments on lower levels of schooling. Using the roll-out of elite public colleges in India, we show that investments in higher education increased educational attainment among school-age children. Private schools entered...

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Education : War and Peace

Tooley, James; Longfield, David - 2021

Low-cost private schools are ubiquitous across the developing world. This book explores their nature and extent in some of the world’s most difficult places: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan. The accepted wisdom of international agencies on education in conflict-affected states...

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New Evidence on the Human Capital Dynamics Within China - Is There a Human Capital Trap?

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2021

It is by now well-established fact that human capital accumulation is decisive for explaining income differences across and within countries. However, while there is already a significant body of literature focusing on the analysis of income convergence, research on the dynamics of the...

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