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Is the Baby to Blame? An Inquiry into the Consequences of Early Childbearing

Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017

adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …

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School-Based Management, School Decision-Making and Education Outcomes in Indonesian Primary Schools

Chen, Dandan - 2017

This paper examines the key aspects of the practices of school-based management in Indonesia, and its effect on education quality. Using a conceptual framework of an accountability system of public service delivery, the paper explores the relations among Indonesian parents, school committees,...

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The Economic Case for Education in Vietnam

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2018

Education is central to the development of human capital. Vietnam has made significant progress. This paper reviews existing research on the returns to education and makes the case for investment in schooling. In Vietnam, the returns to schooling are 10 percent overall. The returns to primary...

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Delivering Education to the Underserved Through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan

Barrera, Felipe - 2017

This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures...

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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2020

This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

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The Impact of the 1999 Education Reform in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej - 2017

Increasing the share of vocational secondary schooling has been a mainstay of development policy for decades, perhaps nowhere more so than in formerly socialist countries. The transition, however, led to significant restructuring of school systems, including a declining share of vocational...

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The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal

Levere, Michael - 2017

extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. The analysis finds significant and sizable …

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Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply

Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2019

increase in labor participation and employment rates of single mothers with eligible children (between 8 and 13 years old) with … are detected among others mothers with eligible children …

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Increased Coverage of Maternal Health Services Among the Poor in Western Uganda in an Output-Based Aid Voucher Scheme

Obare, Francis - 2018

Vouchers stimulate demand for health care services by giving beneficiaries purchasing power. In turn, health facilities? claims are reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with improved quality of health care. Efficient strategies to generate demand from new, often poor, users and supply in the...

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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts

Evans, David - 2017

As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...

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