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Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual's job and earnings …
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Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the … primary and secondary education, and to some services (water, sanitation, electricity, cell phones). However, there is an … increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the access to tertiary education, and important differences in the access to new …
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Healthcare services are more widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean today than 50 years ago, yet this …
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used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a 'stoplight' system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …
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This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children growing up under more favorable circumstances. We examine the impact of a three-year program ("Coaching for Teaching") targeted at ten poorly performing lower secondary schools...
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This paper charts the complex dynamics of the movement of technical talent in the world economy and assesses broadly the impact of such mobility on both sending and receiving countries. Based on secondary data and primary information from the Indian and Japanese IT industry, the study presents a...
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-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
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education colleges, including sixth form colleges. There are currently 218 colleges in England, which offer a wide range of …
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