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Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control...
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to help …
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This paper examines a large-scale randomized evaluation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in 531 rural primary … university. We find negative and significant effects on completing primary and secondary education on time but no effects on …
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Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the … individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non …
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine semi-parametrischer Matching-Ansatz (Propensity Score Matching) verwendet, um den Effekt von Agrarumweltprogrammen, der Aus-gleichszulage für benachteiligte Gebiete sowie der Ausgleichszahlung für Gebiete mit umweltspezifischen Einschränkungen auf den...
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