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performance and grade progression in schools over time and ii) student trajectories as they progress from primary school to …
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elementary school mathematics performance. In addition, fragmentation led to a high turnover and increased job insecurity of … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of … the original municipalities school networks does not impact student outcomes or school personnel. Overall, our findings …
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This paper analyzes preferences for certain school attributes among in-service teachers. We explore a centralized … rank their preferences for schools, we can estimate the desirability of school attributes using a rank-ordered logit model …. We show that the school's distance from the teacher's home, its average test scores, and teacher composition play a …
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receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To … PATH benefits before secondary school enrollment does not influence the academic gains from attending a more selective … school. However, boys exposed to PATH experience significantly lower returns to subsequently attending a more selective …
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(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …
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It is unclear whether teachers with a degree in education are more effective than those who are not trained in an education-related field. To further examine this issue, we analyze the relationship between teachers' college major and student achievement by using unique data from Ecuador, which,...
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This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market …
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Using a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition to tertiary education for students with disabilities in Chile. Enrollment rates in primary and secondary education in Chile differ by less than 2 percentage points for students with or without...
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receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover … the academic gains from attending a preferred school. However, boys exposed to PATH experienced significantly lower gains … from preferred school attendance with respect to comparable peers who did not receive PATH. These results highlight the …
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This paper presents results from a randomized control trial in which approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use...
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