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This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and private primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya...
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formation during college. By combining two standardized tests for Colombian students, one taken at the end of senior year in … high school and the other when students are near graduation from college, this paper documents the extent to which …, in comparison to students in other programs. Teachers' skills vis-a-vis those in other majors deteriorate in quantitative …
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This paper examines the financing of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, comparing the affordability and accessibility of tertiary education with that in high-income countries. To measure affordability, the authors estimate education costs, living costs, grants, and loans....
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This paper investigates how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution, which...
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Private tutoring is now a major component of the education sector in many developing countries, yet education policy too seldom acknowledges and makes use of it. Various criticisms have been raised against private tutoring, most notably that it exacerbates social inequalities and may even fail...
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"Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the quality of … provide education in a format in which students attend a seven-hour daily shift. A subset of Single-Shift schools was …
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This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African … university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high … of students. Tracking lowers students' mean grades in their first year of university and increases the variance or …
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television to remote communities and bilingual education for indigenous students are both shown to improve student achievement … can effectively improve short-term learning results for disadvantaged students, but that improvement varies by the subject … of instruction and the demographics of students taught. …
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This paper analyzes the relation between public, education-related infrastructure and the quality of education in schools. The analysis uses a case study of the establishment of two large, high-quality public libraries in low-income areas in Bogotá, Colombia. It assesses the impact of these...
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A growing number of states and municipalities in Brazil rely on results-based management, and many other local and state governments are considering adopting the practice. This paper examines the experiences of the Brazilian states that have implemented results agreements linked to variable pay....
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