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Battistin, Erich; Ovidi, Marco - 2017

We use the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) to study which attributes characterize a top-scoring (four-star) publication in Economics and Econometrics. We frame the analysis as a classification problem and, using information in official documents, derive conditions to infer the...

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The effects of accountability on the allocation of school resources : regression discontinuity evidence from Chile

Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; Román, Alonso - 2019

This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...

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University quotas and peers' achievement

Giardili, Soledad - 2018

50 percent admission quota for historically disadvantaged students. I study the implications of this regulation on the … academic performance of non-targeted students. Identification rests on the use of pre-law crosswise variation in specially … enrollment of targeted students due to the affirmative action caused an increase in the variance of academic ability within …

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Interactions between conditional cash transfers and preferred secondary schools in Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2022

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...

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Can conditional cash transfers alter the effectiveness of other human capital development policies?

Beuermann, Diether W.; Ramos Bonilla, Andrea; Stampini, … - 2024

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...

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Conditional cash transfers, school progression and academic achievement in Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Bonilla, Andrea Ramos; Stampini, … - 2025

Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH during childhood causally affects school progression and academic performance at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. To uncover causal associations, we...

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Higher education in India : the need for change

Agarwal, Pawan - 2006

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The impact of decentralized decision making on student outcomes and teacher quality : evidence from Colombia

Elacqua, Gregory; Munevar, Isabela; Sánchez Torres, Fabio - 2019

education administration, have on average, a lower proportion of low-performing students, than similar schools in municipalities …

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Report cards : parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti

Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we...

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Local labor markets and higher education mismatch : what is the role of public and private institutions?

Arias Ortiz, Elena; Kaltenberg, Mary; Jara-Figueroa, … - 2020

We analyze mismatches between local labor markets and higher education enrollments in 22 educational fields across 137 mesoregions in Brazil between 2009 and 2016 using a two-stage regression model. Local labor markets have a significant effect on enrollment rates by field in higher education...

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