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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 H.; Glewwe, Paul; Lee, Jongwook; Khoa Vu - 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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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America : long-run implications for poverty and inequality
Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024
on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468167
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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701446
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408867
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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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Benchmarking the future : a dynamic, multi-regional, multi-sectoral trade model for the analysis of climate policies
Klepper, Gernot; Springer, Katrin - 2000
For analyzing the impact of climate change and of international climate policies on the international division of labor and on regional welfare the use of a disaggregated multi–sectoral, multi–regional dynamic computable general equilibrium model is appropriate. This paper discusses the...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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Systemic aspects of R&D policy : subsidies for R&D collaborations and their effects on private R&D
Engel, Dirk; Rothgang, Michael; Eckl, Verena - 2015
higher for business and business collaboration projects than for science and business collaboration projects; (iii) R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404154
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246745
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Does secular education impact religiosity, electoral participation and the propensity to vote for Islamic parties? : evidence from an education reform in a Muslim country
Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - 2014
secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …
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