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School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students' ability to learn. School safety and classroom disciplinary climates have been declining in the Middle East and North Africa region, as is demonstrated in this paper using data from...
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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …
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, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Development countries and education for developing countries in the most recent decade. The regression results indicate that …
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …
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intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …
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This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
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This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … progress on gender parity in education; however, the national averages mask important variations at the subnational level … challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …
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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
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