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Leveraging technology to engage parents at scale : evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric - 2017

While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...

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Schooling and Political Participation in a Neoclassical Framework : Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R.; Chor, Davin - 2008

jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …

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Chapter 55 Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy

Orazem, Peter F.; King, Elizabeth M. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3475-3559). 2007

considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment … rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …

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New Developments in Education Demand : International Empirical Evidences

Gonzales, Carlos Giovanni - 2010

education. The document begins with a review of the theoretical background since the appearance of human capital theory proposed … by Becker (1964), which made way to the emergence of the Economics of Education in the mid-twentieth century. The other … characteristics that influence the demand for post-compulsory education, because it is this demand for education where the person or …

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Education and Behavioural Failures

Terziev, Venelin - 2018

The work defences the thesis that even ensured equal opportunities to invest in education and to get better life, even …

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Gender and race heterogeneity : the impact of increases in students with limited English on native students' performance

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English students' concentration have led to a slight decline in performance solely for students at the top...

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Are you on the right track? : the effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary

Hermann, Zoltán - 2013

in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …

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Allergy test : seasonal allergens and performance in school

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2014

Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...

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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education …

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Gender and racial differences in peer effects of limited English students : a story of language or ethnicity?

Diette, Timothy M.; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2016

There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...

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