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School Participation in Rural India
Jean Drèze,Geeta Kingdon +1 more
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In this article, the authors present an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher posting, teacher regularity and mid-day meals.Abstract:
This paper presents an analysis of the determinant of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher posting , teacher regularity and mid-day meals. The remarkable lead achieved by the state of Himachal Pradesh is fully accounted for by these variables. School quality matters, but it is not related in a simply way to specific inputs.read more
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Youth in Africa's Labor Market
Marito Garcia,Jean Fares +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the challenges Africa's youth face in their transition to working life and propose policies for meeting these challenges and present evidence from case studies of 4 countries - Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda and from household data on 13 countries.
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Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages
Benoit Dostie,Rajshri Jayaraman +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the determinants of school enrollment among children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two large north Indian states, and found that enrollment is increasing in parental education as well as wealth and that village caste composition and aggregate deprivation also influence individual enrollment decisions.
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Investment in Education—Inputs and Incentives*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the current state of empirical knowledge, and gaps in that knowledge, on educational incentives and inputs in developing countries as related to such questions, and assess the benefits relative to the resource costs of alternative policies for improving educational inputs.
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Household Schooling and Child Labor Decisions in Rural Bangladesh
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined household schooling and child labor decisions in rural Bangladesh and found that poverty and low parental education are associated with lower schooling and greater child labor, asset-owning households are more likely to have children combine child labor with schooling; households choose the same activity for all children within the household, regardless of gender.
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How Much of the Gender Difference in Child School Enrolment Can Be Explained? Evidence from Rural India
Sarmistha Pal,Sarmistha Pal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the implicit and explicit opportunity costs of schooling were taken into account and a bivariate probit model was used to jointly determine a child's participation in school and market jobs.
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An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
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The analysis of household surveys
TL;DR: Deaton as discussed by the authors reviewed the analysis of household survey data, including the construction of household surveys, the econometric tools useful for such analysis, and a range of problems in development policy for which this survey analysis can be applied.
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Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement
Joshua D. Angrist,Victor Lavy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of class size on student achievement has been investigated in the context of test scores of Israeli 4th and 5th graders and 3rd graders.
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The Effect of Primary-School Quality on Academic Achievement across Twenty-nine High- and Low-Income Countries
TL;DR: Diverse influences on pupil achievement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East is explored to conclude that the predominant influence on student learning is the quality of the schools and teachers to which children are exposed.