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Good teachers are essential for high-quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers'skills 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...
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This paper estimates the impact of the full-time school program in Uruguay on standardized test scores of 6th grade students. The program lengthened the school day from a half day to a full day, and provided additional inputs to schools to make this possible, such as additional teachers and...
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A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...
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This paper investigates how the reduction of barriers to migration affected 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,...
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This paper examines the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt...
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The authors propose a more complete conceptual framework for analysis of credit availability for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this framework, lending technologies are the key conduit through which government policies and national financial structures affect credit availability. They...
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arithmetic. What explains this "learning crisis?" A growing body of evidence suggests that poor teaching practices and little to … no learning inside the classroom are the main culprits. As such, the learning crisis reflects a teaching crisis. So what … effective teaching practices in primary school classrooms, with special focus on evidence from low- and middle-income countries …
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Much of the current analysis on agricultural productivity is hampered by the lack of consistent, high quality data on …
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Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do …, coordination ability, and defending against capture is critical to successful implementation of productivity policies and should be …
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loss, although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with a 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is …
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