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Despite its growing popularity, evidence that volunteering enhances civic values and social cohesion among different communities remains limited in developing countries. This study presents novel evidence from Lebanon on the impact of offering a volunteering program that consisted of...
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up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports …'s readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … the school readiness literacy domains and overall score by 0.19 and 0.2 standard deviation, respectively, for girls and …
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method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard …
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A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program … the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school … regular school-based management practices before the evaluation. A difference-in-difference design is used to identify …
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educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher … learning in the context of the poor areas where PROSPERA principally operates, which tend to have overall low school quality … also confirms large effects on enrollment in secondary and high school, using administrative school enrollment data rather …
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School closures due to COVID-19 have left more than a billion students out of school. This paper presents the results … of simulations considering three, five and seven months of school closure and different levels of mitigation … adversely affected by the school closures. Globally, a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a …
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This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation of a performance-based financing pilot in rural areas of two regions of Tajikistan. Primary care facilities were given financial incentives conditional on general quality and the quantity provided of selected services related to...
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