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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 …
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receive an offer to transfer are more likely to be classified as requiring special education and their test scores increase in …
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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...
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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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...
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support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …
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-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …
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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 …
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activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as …
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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...
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