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Can Public Works Programs Reduce Youth Crime? Evidence from Papua New Guinea's Urban Youth Employment Project
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy - 2017
Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …
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Report Cards : The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
Andrabi, Tahir - 2015
This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half of the sample villages (markets) received report cards. This increased test scores by...
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Upping the ante : the equilibrium effects of unconditional grants to private schools
Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Ozyurt, … - 2018
This paper tests for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country. In an experimental setup, unconditional cash grants are allocated to one private school or all private schools in a village. Enrollment increases in both treatments, accompanied by infrastructure...
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Low-cost private schools in Tanzania : a descriptive analysis
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Sununtnasuk, Celeste; … - 2020
This paper discusses the potential role of low-cost private secondary schools in Tanzania. The share of private enrollment has been negatively correlated with the availability of public schools. With the 2016 Fee-Free Basic Education Policy, the public secondary education system is experiencing...
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Preschool Education in Brazil : Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?
Bastos, Paulo - 2016
This paper examines whether an expansion in the supply of public preschool crowds out private enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in Brazil from 2000 to 2006, where federal transfers to local governments change discontinuously with given population thresholds. The results...
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Impact of Public-Private Partnerships on Private School Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2016
This paper estimates the short-term, partial-equilibrium impacts of a public-private partnership program for low-cost private secondary schools in Uganda. The public-private partnership program is part of a broader strategy to absorb large increases in secondary enrollment following the...
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Do information technologies improve teenagers' sexual education? : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Colombia
Chong, Alberto; González-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; … - 2019
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge,...
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The economic lives of young women in the time of Ebola : lessons from an empowerment program
Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple economic disadvantages. The intervention provides them with a protective space (a club) where they can find support, receive...
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A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Mayer Gukovas, Renata - 2018
accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …
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The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors
De Walque, Damien - 2018
Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...
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