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that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …
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It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
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Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet …
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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes using cross-country evidence from Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. It uses the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International database, which includes...
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who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in … indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children …
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This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model estimated by local instrumental variables, and data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey. The analysis finds that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely across...
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72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …
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The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy. The authors recognize that households will respond optimally to changes in school inputs and study how such responses affect the link between school inputs and cognitive achievement. To...
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recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have …
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Using a rich data set of almost the entire population of Ukrainian secondary schools, the authors estimate the effect of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find that larger schools tend to have somewhat better...
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