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The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Test Scores, School Completion, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood : Evidence from School Transitions

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2016

In 2010, the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago converted 20 low-performing secondary schools from coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school inputs constant. After also accounting for student...

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The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Test Scores, School Completion, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood : Evidence from School Transitions

Kirabo Jackson, C. - 2016

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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using administrative student register data and exploiting the...

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Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality : a microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana

Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; Osei, Robert Darko - 2018

The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation. However, in most developing countries education is not accessible to all. In Ghana - although basic education is...

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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022 - This version: August 2022

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Much ado about nothing? : school curriculum reforms and students' educational trajectories

Strazzeri, Maurizio; Oggenfuss, Chantal; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

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Free primary education, schooling, and fertility : evidence from Ethiopia

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2016

This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting variation … schooling on fertility. Each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility, a delay in sexual activity, marriage …

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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - In: Journal of African economies 33 (2024) 1, pp. 67-91

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Common law marriage and teen births

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2015

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage … repealed the odds that teens would become new mothers increased, with a larger increase among young black teens. When we … CLM on older women becoming mothers. To the extent that they reduce teen births CLM laws are socially desirable and worthy …

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Subdermal contraceptive implants and repeat teenage motherhood : evidence from a major maternity hospital-based program in Uruguay

Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, Patricia; Antón Pérez, José … - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 12, pp. 2679-2693

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