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The Impact of Cash Transfers on Food Security
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)Vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan African countries often face high levels of food insecurity which disproportionately affect households living in poverty and children are particularly at risk. This review of eight ... -
The impact of education programmes on learning and school participation in low- and middle-income countries
(International Initiative for Impact Education, 2016-09)It includes studies assessing the impact of 216 programmes implemented across 52 low- and middle-income countries. And it moves beyond examining whether a programme works or doesn’t work. By examining the multiple factors ... -
The Impact of Examinee Performance Information on Judges’ Cut Scores in Modified Angoff Standard-Setting Exercises
(National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014)This research evaluated the impact of a common modification to Angoff standard-setting exercises: the provision of examinee performance data. Data from 18 independent standard-setting panels across three different medical ... -
The Impact of Financial Education on Conditional Cash Transfer Beneficiaries in Peru
(The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015)The research did not find conclusive evidence on changes in expenditures on health and education due to the SPP (Savings Promotion Pilot). Since we cannot claim a non-negative impact on these variables, we think it is ... -
The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration : evidence from Argentina
(BID, 2010-09)In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured ... -
The impact of intimate partner violence on child development in Peru
(GRADE, 2018)The researchers used longitudinal data from a cohort of Peruvian children (n=1,720) tracked starting at the age of 1 year old to test the association between alcohol-induced physical IPV (intimate partner violence) against ... -
The Impact of Literacy, Numeracy and Computer Skills on Earnings and Employment Outcomes
(OECD, 2016-03)Using the 2012 PIAAC data, the analysis confirms that there are significantly higher earnings and employment returns to both increasing levels of formally recognised education, and to increasing levels of numeracy, literacy ... -
The Impact of Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and Infrastructure on Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Peru
(BID, 2014-02)The Peruvian economy has exhibited remarkable growth in the past 20 years. Good tax and monetary policies, along with comprehensive structural adjustment, which has attracted substantial foreign investment, are regarded ... -
The Impact of School Infrastructure on Learning : A Synthesis of the Evidence
(World Bank, 2019)The aim of this report is to review current research studies on how school infrastructure affects children’s learning outcomes and to identify key parameters that can inform the design, implementation, and supervision of ... -
The Impact of School-Based Financial Education on High School Students and their Teachers : Experimental Evidence from Peru
(BID, 2018-03)Using data from a randomized controlled trial in 300 public high schools in Peru, this paper studies the potential of school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students’ and teachers’ ... -
The importance of action research in teacher education programs
(Australia's Institutes for Educational Research, 2013)Following entry into the workforce, there are limited opportunities for new graduate teachers to engage in critically reflective activities about their educative practice. In an increasingly complex and challenging profession, ... -
The influence of the parents’ educational level and participants’ age in the derivation of equivalence-equivalence
(Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 2014)Antecedentes: el objetivo de este trabajo fue el estudio del razonamiento analógico desde el fenómeno de equivalencia-equivalencia. Método: las variables estudiadas fueron la edad de los participantes y el nivel educativo ... -
The Intensification of Rankings Logic in an Increasingly Marketised Higher Education Environment
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)Rankings and online comparison sites have both facilitated and shaped the marketisation of higher education in England, the UK as a whole and elsewhere. They have facilitated marketisation by introducing greater competition ... -
The Investment Case for Education and Equity
(UNICEF, 2015-01)Education is in crisis worldwide. Millions of children, especially the most marginalized, are excluded from school. Many millions more attend school, but they do not learn basic reading and math skills. In addition, ... -
The Kuznets Curve of Education : A Global Perspective on Education Inequalities
(London School of Economics. Centre for the Economics of Education, 2010-06)This paper depicts the world distribution of education over 140 years, improving and extending the database recently released by Morrisson and Murtin (2009), which focuses on average years of schooling. The document provides ... -
The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
(IZA. Institute of Labor Economics, 2016-12)This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It ... -
The Maturing of the MOOC : Literature Review of Massive Open Online Courses and other Forms of Online Distance Learning
(Department for Business, Innovation and Skills [untranslated], 2013-09)This survey of MOOC and ODL literature aims to capture the state of knowledge and opinion about MOOCs and ODL, how they are evolving, and to identify issues that are important, whether consensual or controversial. -
The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2011-11)This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its ... -
The medium makes the message: Effects of cues on students’ lecture notes
(Lynne P. Baldwin, 2010)Previous work has shown that students’ notes often fail to record key facts and concepts. The relatively recent widespread adoption of PowerPoint slides and handouts might now help students to record key issues, but only ... -
The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children
(UNICEF. Office of Research, 2016)The document is an on-going, four-country study in Italy, Peru, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe, led by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and its academic partner the University of Edinburgh. Over the past 10 years, studies ...