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This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of people aged 50 and over from fourteen OECD countries. We use variation in the timing of educational reforms...
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This paper examines whether additional time in elementary and secondary school affects economic well-being in adulthood …. This paper explores a large-scale reform that increased the Chilean school day by 30 percent between 1997 and 2010, with … access to longer school days varying by cohort and city. Both sources of variation are leveraged and it is found that full …
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in returns to education and school quality, and possible complementarity between parent's education and financial … school quality is complementary to or a substitute for parental financial investment. This paper finds evidence of …
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interviews included senior officials of the Ministry of Education, school leaders and teachers of public schools in the Maldives … the pandemic. Hence, it is evident that the school system of the Maldives will emerge stronger beyond COVID-19 …
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A foresight study on school education (ISCED levels 1-3) in the EU, which aimed at developing four scenarios …, describing potential alternative futures of the school education in the EU by 2040, identifying the preferred scenario … developments and providing recommendations on the policy measures that could be introduced, or strengthened, to help school …
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A foresight study on school education (ISCED levels 1-3) in the EU, which aimed at developing four scenarios …, describing potential alternative futures of the school education in the EU by 2040, identifying the preferred scenario … developments and providing recommendations on the policy measures that could be introduced, or strengthened, to help school …
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This review highlights three main findings. First, school feeding programs in low-income countries exhibit large … variation in cost, with concomitant opportunities for cost containment. Second, as countries get richer, school feeding costs … become a much smaller proportion of the investment in education. For example, in Zambia the cost of school feeding is about …
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This study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its …. Reforms are urgently required in the secondary school systems of most African countries in order to: (a) reduce the number of … Botswana where a tiny but reliable and reasonably predictable secondary school sector has five competing approved textbooks in …
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School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …
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how these analyses could valuably inform educational access initiatives like school construction and transportation … investments, and outline a variety of analytic extensions to gain deeper insight into the state of school access across a given … majority of Guatemalan population lives within 3 km of a public primary school, indicating a generally low incidence of …
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