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Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China
The American Economic Review, 2020 This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside.
Yi Chen +3 more
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The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
Social Science Research Network, 2017 Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 percent) more likely to graduate from high school and 6 percentage points (19 ...
S. Gershenson +4 more
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Do Parents Value School Effectiveness?
The American Economic Review, 2020 School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents’ choices reward effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics.
A. Abdulkadiroglu +3 more
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Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
, 2012 We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India.
E. Duflo, Rema Hanna, Stephen Ryan
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
The American Economic Review, 2016 We study the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program in middle-school grades in urban India using a lottery that provided winners with free access to the program.
K. Muralidharan +2 more
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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and girls' opportunities.
Diva Dhar +3 more
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Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023 The ability to speak and understand a host country’s primary language is strongly associated with measures of immigrant integration. We estimate the causal effects of English language training for adult immigrants on participants’ civic and economic ...
Blake H Heller, Kirsten Slungaard Mumma
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The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper shows that schools can foster the transmission of civic virtues by helping students to develop concrete, democratically chosen, collective projects. We draw on an RCT implemented in 200 middle schools in three countries.
S. Briole +5 more
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Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting
The American Economic ReviewWe test the effectiveness of a behavioral program grounded in the idea that status granting and self-persuasion might yield a robust behavioral change in disadvantaged adolescents.
Sule Alan, Elif Kubilay
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Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 Conditional cash transfers provide income and promote human capital investments. Yet evaluating their longitudinal impacts is hard, as most experimental evaluations treat control locations after a few years. We examine such impacts in Indonesia after six
Nur Cahyadi +5 more
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