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  • 1
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    The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048269965
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the returns to upper secondary and tertiary education, and a source of financial aid for tertiary education, can contribute to improve student performance. The study finds that the intervention had no effects on the probability of taking a 12th grade national standardized exam three years after, a proxy for on-time high school completion, but a positive and significant impact on learning outcomes and self-reported measures of effort. The effects are larger for girls and students from households with a relatively high income. These findings are consistent with a simple model where time discount determines the increase in effort and only students with adequate initial conditions are able to translate increased effort into better outcomes
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Avitabile, Ciro The Heterogeneous Effect of Information on Student Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Mexico Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7422
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  • 2
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    High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints : Evidence from Urban Mexico (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048269970
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Parents and students from different socioeconomic backgrounds value differently school characteristics, but the reasons behind this preference heterogeneity are not well understood. In the context of the centralized school assignment system in Mexico City, this study analyzes how a large household income shock affects choices over high school tracks exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of the welfare program Oportunidades. The income shock significantly increases the probability of choosing the vocational track vis-a-vis the other more academic-oriented tracks. The findings suggest that the transfer relaxes the financial constraints that prevent relatively low-ability students from choosing the schooling option with higher labor market returns
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Avitabile, Ciro High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2015
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7427
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    The Quality of Health and Education Systems Across Africa : Evidence from a Decade of Service Delivery Indicators Surveys (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049080843
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (166 Seiten)
    Content: Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching? Can doctors accurately diagnose and treat critical health conditions? Are schools and health facilities sufficiently stocked with needed equipment and supplies? Are they sufficiently supported and staffed to optimize learning and health care outcomes? For the past decade, the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys have collected nationally representative data in countries across Sub-Saharan Africa to answer these questions. The surveys aim to measure the quality of services where they meet citizens: in schools and health facilities. The Quality of Health and Education Systems Across Africa: Evidence from a Decade of Service Delivery Services Indicators identifies areas of achievement and constraint in service delivery, shedding light on how service delivery may foster or stunt human capital accumulation.
    Content: SDI surveys show that schools and health clinics across Africa are still falling short in some critical areas.The delivery of primary care services is very heterogenous between and within countries. Many health facilities lack the basic necessities to provide proper care, such as essential medicines, basic diagnostic equipment, and adequate water and sanitation. Moreover, health care providers' ability to diagnose and treat common health conditions correctly is low and distributed unevenly. Health personnel's absence from health facilities remains a concern across the surveyed countries. Learning is low, and, not unlike health care, levels of student learning vary significantly across countries: less than half of grade 4 students can recite a simple sentence or perform basic mathematical operations. This deficient learning is correlated with teachers' low levels of content knowledge and sub-par pedagogy skills.
    Content: Some schools are also missing crucial inputs, such as blackboards or private and gendered toilets, and struggle with high pupil-teacher ratios. Despite these challenges, success stories in both sectors illustrate the quality of service delivery that could be achieved and showcase the dedication of teachers and medical staff across Africa. By studying data from thousands of facilities, considering the local context, and drawing insights from the literature, this book offers important insights for how countries can strengthen health and education systems and build back better in the wake of the massive disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 9781464816758
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1675-8
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1675-8
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  • 4
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    Enhancing Human Capital at Scale (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049081634
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (45 Seiten)
    Content: A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of mobile mentors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates 0 results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment effects on primary school children's cognitive, behavioral, and educational achievements. This difference cannot be explained by re medial educational activities or pedagogical support, but it can be reconciled with higher parental aspirations and investments. Evidence gathered on the subsequent national roll out of the intervention with enhanced training substantiates the scalability of the experimental design
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9647
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9647
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    At a Crossroads : Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    gbv_1657053865
    Format: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (298 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9781464810152
    Series Statement: Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development
    Content: Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded dramatically in the past 15 years, as the average gross enrollment rate has more than doubled, and many new institutions and programs have been opened. Although higher education access has become more equitable, and higher education supply has become more varied, many of the 'new' students in the system are, on average, less academically ready than are their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, only half of higher education students, on average, complete their degree, and labor market returns to higher education vary greatly across institutions and programs. Thus, higher education is at a crossroads today. Given the region's urgency to raise productivity in a low-growth, fiscally constrained environment, going past this crossroads requires the formation of skilled human capital fast and efficiently. 'At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean' contributes to the discussion by studying quality, variety, and equity of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book presents comprehensive evidence on the recent higher education expansion and evolution of higher education labor market returns. Using novel data and state-of-the-art methods, it studies demand and supply drivers of the recent expansion. It investigates the behavior of institutions and students and explores the unintended consequences of large-scale higher education policies. Framing the analysis are the singular characteristics of the higher education market and the market segmentation induced by the variety of students and institutions in the system. At this crossroads, a role emerges for incentives, information, accountability, and choice
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781464810145
    Additional Edition: Druckausg. ISBN 978-1-4648-1014-5
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1014-5
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    Author information: Urzua, Sergio 1977-
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  • 6
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    Domestic government spending on human capital : a cross-country analysis of recent trends (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Human Development Global Practice
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    gbv_1681954621
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 32 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9033
    Content: Using a new data set comprised of publicly available information, this paper provides cross-country evidence on domestic government spending for human capital in recent years. Creating a measure of social spending that covers the three sectors of health, education, and social protection has proven to be a challenging task. Only for health spending is there high data coverage over time and across countries. Education and, especially, social protection display large gaps. Increases in social sector spending have generally been slow and unsteady. Although education spending in low-income countries has seen a stable and steady increase, spending on health has been remarkably flat. Human capital outcomes are only weakly correlated with spending in the three sectors. Finally, this paper discusses future research required to provide guidance on how much and what type of investment is needed to achieve high levels of human capital
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Andrews, Kathryn Domestic Government Spending on Human Capital: A Cross-Country Analysis of Recent Trends Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9033
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    Addressing high school dropouts with a scalable intervention : the case of PODER (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Education Global Practice
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    gbv_169119168X
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 32 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9085
    Content: Working with the Mexican Ministry of Education, this study piloted a scalable program to reduce high school dropout rates by focusing on socio-emotional skill development and mathematics tutoring. The intervention was evaluated through a randomized field experiment with more than 5,000 youths at 20 upper secondary schools in Mexico City. An intention-to-treat analysis finds some evidence that exposure to the Opportunities and Development to Avoid Risks Program increases socio-emotional skills, but no evidence that it improves math outcomes or future attendance. Likely explanations for these 0 results include low take-up and other process factors, which are document qualitatively, as well as heterogeneous treatment effects. In particular, an inverse-probability-weighted matching model is suggestive of an effect whereby some students participate actively in the program and drop out of school less often, while other students choose not to participate when given the option and actually drop out more as a result
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Avitabile Ciro Addressing High School Dropouts with a Scalable Intervention: The Case of PODER Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9085
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    The medium term impacts of cash and in-kind food transfers on learning (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Education Global Practice
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    gbv_1691191876
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 57 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9086
    Content: This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children who were exposed to the randomized controlled trial of the Mexico's Food Support Program (the Programa de Apoyo Alimentario, PAL), in which households were assigned to receive cash, in-kind food transfers, or nothing (a control). The children are matched with administrative data on primary school standardized tests, which were taken four to 10 years after the experiment began. The findings show that in-kind transfers did not impact test scores, while cash transfers led to a significant and meaningful decrease in test scores. An analysis of the mechanisms driving these results reveals that both transfers led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a greater consumption of several key micronutrients that are vital for brain development, which likely attenuated the negative impacts of child labor on learning
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Avitabile Ciro The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Food Transfers on Learning Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9086
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    Can Digital Personalized Learning for Mathematics Remediation Level the Playing Field in Higher Education? : Experimental Evidence from Ecuador (2023)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    gbv_1853210072
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (30 pages)
    Content: Many Ecuadorian students entering higher education have cognitive skills gaps in mathematics that undermine their ability to assimilate academic contents. This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial assessing the effects on academic outcomes of a Digital Personalized Learning Software for mathematics remediation (the ALEKS software) offered to first-year students entering technical and technological higher education programs in Ecuador amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The possibility to use the software led to a large and marginally significant decline in the probability of repeating a course, as well as a very large positive impact on standardized test scores in math. The analysis finds no impact on the probability of enrolling in the third semester. When disaggregating the impacts, the findings show that the effects on repetition are particularly large for male students, possibly because of higher male enrollment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. When assessing the potential mechanisms, the findings show evidence that the software led to a net increase in hours dedicated to studying mathematics. The results suggest that Digital Personalized Learning Software can be a cost-effective solution for math remediation with potential for large-scale application
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Angel-Urdinola, Diego Can Digital Personalized Learning for Mathematics Remediation Level the Playing Field in Higher Education? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2023
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10483
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    The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Food Transfers on Learning (2019)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048274557
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (57 Seiten)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children who were exposed to the randomized controlled trial of the Mexico's Food Support Program (the Programa de Apoyo Alimentario, PAL), in which households were assigned to receive cash, in-kind food transfers, or nothing (a control). The children are matched with administrative data on primary school standardized tests, which were taken four to 10 years after the experiment began. The findings show that in-kind transfers did not impact test scores, while cash transfers led to a significant and meaningful decrease in test scores. An analysis of the mechanisms driving these results reveals that both transfers led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a greater consumption of several key micronutrients that are vital for brain development, which likely attenuated the negative impacts of child labor on learning
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Avitabile Ciro The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-Kind Food Transfers on Learning Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9086
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