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Telementoring and homeschooling during school closures : a randomized experiment in rural Bangladesh
Hassan, Md. Hashibul; Islam, Asad; Siddique, Abu; Wang, … - 2023
intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers during Covid-19 school closures. Post …-intervention, treated children scored 35% higher on a standardized test, and the homeschooling involvement of treated mothers increased by … 22 minutes per day (26%). We also found that the intervention forestalled treated children's learning losses. When we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394220
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Peer gender and schooling: evidence from Ethiopia
Borbely, Daniel; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549728
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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021
Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023
share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412448
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Genetic and socioeconomic achievement gaps in elementary school
Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022
during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … to selection into different environments, the high PGS children are simply better at extracting resources from a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275398
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Sibling spillover in rural China : a story of sisters and daughters
Bansak, Cynthia; Jiang, Xuan; Yang, Guanyi - 2020
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an … strongest when both children are daughters. However, the son-preference culture emphasized in certain regions negatively offsets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201296
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Nuns and the effects of Catholic schools : evidence from Vatican II
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea - 2013
This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic schooling and student outcomes is explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221564
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Sir! I'd rather go to school, sir!
Majbouri, Mahdi - 2017
Military service is a popular method of army recruitment for governments of developing countries that are particularly prone to conflict. This study contributes to the largely under-researched issues of military service by looking at an unintended consequence of a military service exemption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664387
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The short-term effects of school consolidation on student achievement : evidence of disruption?
Beuchert-Pedersen, Louise Voldby; Humlum, Maria Knoth; … - 2016
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and test scores one year prior to school consolidation and up to four years after. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531954
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem A.; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the quasi-random assignment of students to different class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775947
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Minimum age requirements and the impact of school choice
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2018
, and the difference across municipalities in the composition of the schools according to these cutoffs. Children living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819960