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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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Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the 2012 and 2015 PISA assessments. We provide a rigorous investigation of Vietnam's strong...
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, followed by those targeting households, communities, and regions. Households with higher education levels or living standards …
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, followed by those targeting households, communities, and regions. Households with higher education levels or living standards …
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could substantially reduce inequalities in education. …
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impacts-half a century later-of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the occupied areas … to the program obtained significantly higher levels of education than their peers who were residing in French … spillover and inter-generational impacts of education: affected girls enjoyed higher household living standards, had more …
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wealth, particularly for longer durations of vulnerability. Higher education levels generally exhibit a stronger lack of … adaptation. The lack of adaptation to vulnerability is, however, similar at different education levels for subjective wealth. We …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in poorer countries. To fill in this gap, we implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...
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