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adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …
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This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures...
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indicate that the ability of mothers to combine work and family has important implications for fertility, and that pro …. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and … higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain significantly below replacement rate. Unlike some Western European …
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extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. The analysis finds significant and sizable …
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Vouchers stimulate demand for health care services by giving beneficiaries purchasing power. In turn, health facilities’ claims are reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with improved quality of health care. Efficient strategies to generate demand from new, often poor, users and supply in the...
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increase in labor participation and employment rates of single mothers with eligible children (between 8 and 13 years old) with … are detected among others mothers with eligible children …
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The authors use propensity score matching to evaluate the effectiveness of CONAFE, a compensatory education program in Mexico, in improving student test scores and lowering repetition and failure rates. They find that CONAFE is most effective in improving primary school math learning and...
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As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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The authors conduct a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional. Families under the conditional...
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money, self-confidence, and anxiety about circumstances and the future. The evaluation finds no net impact on fertility or …
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