How Do Health Shocks Impact Labor Supply? Gender Matters
In the developing world missing work due to illness often means poor families struggle. Since few jobs offer paid sick
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Better Educator Incentives Can Improve Primary School Completion
Primary school completion rates remain low, and educator accountability remains weak in many low-income countries. The accountability pressures that do
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How Do “High-Stakes” Grades Affect Student Behavior?
Grades, including evaluations by teachers, standardized test scores, and exam results, can affect student behavior for at least three reasons.
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When Your New School Comes with an Extra Challenge: Traffic Pollution
More than 6.4 million children attend public school within 250 meters of a major roadway, and nearly one in five
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Do Children Learn Better in Mixed-Age Classrooms?
Multigrading, the practice of mixing children of different ages in the same classroom, occurs in about one-third of school classes
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Public Works Programs in India—A Path to Stability or a Low-Wage Track?
Public works programs have become a popular tool for poverty reduction in low-income countries. There are approximately 90 public works
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Workers with Eye-Care Coverage Tend to Work More Hours and Have More Highly Compensated Positions
While poor vision has the potential to decrease workplace productivity, little is known about the actual connection between access to
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Recess, Lead, and Mercury—TRIs Impact Kids and School Rankings
There are currently 21,800 toxic release inventory sites (TRIs) operating in the United States, but we have little information on
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Measuring the Total Benefits of Influenza Vaccination
The total benefit to society from a single additional influenza vaccination includes the direct benefits to the individual receiving the
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Learning about Potential Earnings Changes Students’ Choice of College Major
An undergraduate’s choice of college major has enormous consequences for their economic future, but how well do they understand their
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