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School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about … external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental …
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also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …
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include macroeconomic management, human capital, trade, governance, and labour and capital markets. Given strong …
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, with Syria having achieved near universal primary education enrolment and a high rate of completed secondary education. Due … important education-related questions for the international community as a whole, like the educational background of Syrians … Syrian education in the broader global context. It aims to provide detailed information that other researchers, policymakers …
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CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little doubt that such programs can increase enrollment and grades attained--in the short term. But evidence is notably lacking on...
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expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …
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education condition, and young children and mothers were only subject to health conditions in the absence of older children …
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based on census and largescale survey data from 13 European countries, collected in the Cohort Fertility and Education … education. The results suggest that the changes in the educational composition of the population were only marginally related to … decreased: the differences between women of medium/high education and low educated women diminished. However, the childlessness …
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-demographic determinants, disaster experience and education are found to be key predictors of individual disaster preparedness. This paper … explores the pathways through which education enhances disaster preparedness and the interplay between education and experience …: the Philippines and Thailand. While education raises the propensity to prepare against disasters, we further find that the …
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This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...
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