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Adoption of improved maize seed by smallholder farmers in Mozambique
Zavale, Helder; Mabaya, Edward; Christy, Ralph - 2005
The objective of this paper is to investigate factors influencing the adoption of improved maize seed by smallholder … influencing adoption of improved maize seed were identified. The results of this analysis indicate that fifteen out of twenty five … factors are significantly found to be the determining factors influencing the probability of adopting improved maize seed. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282042
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Technology -- Climate Interactions in the Green Revolution in India
Evenson, Robert E.; McKinsey, James W. - 1999
This paper present a model of the Green Revolution in India, in which the development and diffusion of HYVs, the expansion of irrigation and the expansion of multiple-cropping are treated as endogenous responses to more basic investments in agricultural technology and infrastructure, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369127
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
West, Martin R.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260550
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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260645
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261900
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The Effect of Family Income During Childhood on Later-Life Attainment: Evidence from Germany
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262621
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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a situation where the public schools essentially were...
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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300
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The impact of family income on child achievement: Evidence from the earned income tax credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284026
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Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters
Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2023
This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth trajectories associated with educational programs:...
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