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Education is a fundamental human right and it is a global Sustainable Development Goal to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded from educational opportunities at great cost to...
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degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
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We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple difference, and synthetic control methodologies, we find...
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new law increases lower secondary school completion in girls, leading to decreased probabilities of giving birth in the … school-age years (14-17 years). The policy primarily affects the marginal child leading to the postponement of the timing of … their fertility to after-school years. We also document heterogeneity and show that the fertility effects are stronger for …
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, and increased grade inflation. The results follow from a difference-in-differences analysis of matched student-school …
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substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … measure for the 1997 reform, we find that, on average, one additional middle school class increases the probability of … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …
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causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …
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This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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International Survey (TALIS), one of the world's largest survey of teachers and school leaders. Latest available TALIS 2018 data … pressure, with greater school delinquency and violence. There were no statistically significant differences between in …
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We estimate the causal effect of exposure to math during high school on university major choice and performance, using … family background. We find that attending a low-math high school reduces the likelihood of enrolling in STEM majors by 32 … points and boosting grades by 0.139 standard deviations. Leveraging a high school reform that expanded the math content in …
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