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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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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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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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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
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Mentoring, educational services, and economic incentives : longer-term evidence on risky behaviors from a randomized trial
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968605
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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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Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : what do we know about them?
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010
-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153571
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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher … education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the … any future student loan system within Ireland from a fiscal viewpoint. -- higher education financing ; dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235521
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Effects of scaling up private school choice programs on public school students
Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2021
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517817
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How does the elimination of state aid to for-profit colleges affect enrollment? : evidence from California's reforms
Gurantz, Oded; Sakoda, Ryan; Sarkar, Shayak - 2021
This paper examines how financial aid reform based on postsecondary institutional performance impacts student choice. Federal and state regulations often reflect concerns about the private, for-profit sector's poor employment outcomes and high loan defaults, despite the sector's possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695642