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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods. [PDF]

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This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales.
Overman, Henry G.
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How Sibling Composition Affects Adolescent Schooling Outcomes When Welfare Reform Policies Increase Maternal Employment [PDF]

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Pooling across seven experimental studies, this paper examines the role of sibling composition in influencing the effects of 14 welfare and employment programs on adolescents.
Lisa A. Gennetian
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Evaluating the impact of Mexico's quality schools program : the pitfalls of using nonexperimental data [PDF]

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The authors evaluate whether increasing school resources and decentralizing management decisions at the school level improves learning in a developing country. Mexico's Quality Schools Program (PEC), following many other countries and U.S. states, offers
Shapiro, Joseph, Skoufias, Emmanuel
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary schoolgirls in Kenya. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health, 2022
Zulaika G   +10 more
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Is grade repetition one of the causes of early school dropout? :Evidence from Senegalese primary schools. [PDF]

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This chapter investigates the connection between grade repetition and school dropout. Household data is matched against a panel of academic test scores and the school career of each child inferred from the combined dataset. This chapter uses two original
André, Pierre
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