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We exploit the variation in the admissions process across colleges of a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment using scores on standardized university exams; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and...
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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two key channels of transmission, namely education and trade. Thirty-six Sub-Saharan African countries during the period …
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Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...
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Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian university. The rule means that in almost 30 per...
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This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
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effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on … education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of … moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …
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In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as … differences in the mechanisms linking these outcomes to education, with the latter being mediated by income to a higher degree …
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