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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education : what can be learned?
Riddell, Abby Rubin - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611809
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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2005
-productivity and complementarity. -- skill formation ; education ; government policy ; educational finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003130073
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The risks and benefits of school integration for participating students : evidence from a randomized desegregation program
Bergman, Peter - 2018
receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874417
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School choice, student sorting and academic performance
Munteanu, Andrei - 2024
This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test scores. I find that more school choice results in increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461383
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School choice, student sorting and academic performance
Munteanu, Andrei - 2024
This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use differences in the number of schools across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in school choice for local students, who compete for seats via test scores. I find that more school choice results in increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521057
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Microeconometric Evaluations of Education Policies
Siegler, Benedikt - 2015
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698347
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The effects of accountability on the allocation of school resources : regression discontinuity evidence from Chile
Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; Román, Alonso - 2019
This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127414
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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899906
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School and drugs: closing the gap : evidence from a randomized trial in the US
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results were modest and its effects on risky behaviors detrimental. Exploiting control group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575112
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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009
support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909167