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The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Dang, Hai-Anh; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Vu, Khoa - 2022

This paper evaluates how Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program, an educational reform for primary schools supported by the World Bank, affected the cognitive (mathematics and Vietnamese) and non-cognitive (socioemotional) skills of students in that country. We use propensity score matching to...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins

Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

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Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were … hypothesis. However, Protestants’ education motives went beyond reading the bible. …

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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...

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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time … education and school outcomes. …

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Something in the Air? Pollution, Allergens and Children's Cognitive Functioning

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not fully distinguished between contemporaneous and long-run effects. This paper contributes on both of...

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