How Do Health Shocks Impact Labor Supply? Gender Matters

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How Do Health Shocks Impact Labor Supply? Gender Matters

July 31, 2020July 23, 2020 admin development, family, gender, labor

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

July 21, 2020 admin development, education, school accountability

Primary school completion rates remain low, and educator accountability remains weak in many low-income countries. The accountability pressures that do

Graph: students work harder after recoded GPA is lower.

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How Do “High-Stakes” Grades Affect Student Behavior?

July 10, 2020June 10, 2020 admin college, education, grades

Grades, including evaluations by teachers, standardized test scores, and exam results, can affect student behavior for at least three reasons.

school performance drops with move to school downwind of highway

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When Your New School Comes with an Extra Challenge: Traffic Pollution

June 26, 2020June 2, 2020 admin children, education, 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?

June 19, 2020May 27, 2020 admin children, education

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?

June 12, 2020May 22, 2020 admin development, education, poverty, work

Public works programs have become a popular tool for poverty reduction in low-income countries. There are approximately 90 public works

Why might vision benefits make a difference for low-income adults? “The out-of-pocket costs for an optometrist visit and corrective lenses are approximately 37% of monthly income for a single adult living at the federal poverty line.”

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Workers with Eye-Care Coverage Tend to Work More Hours and Have More Highly Compensated Positions

June 5, 2020May 15, 2020 admin benefits, healthcare, labor

While poor vision has the potential to decrease workplace productivity, little is known about the actual connection between access to

change in test scores after TRI near school

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Recess, Lead, and Mercury—TRIs Impact Kids and School Rankings

May 29, 2020May 13, 2020 admin children, education, environment, pollution, school accountability, wellness

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

May 22, 2020May 15, 2020 admin health policy, healthcare, healthcare workers, vaccines, wellness

The total benefit to society from a single additional influenza vaccination includes the direct benefits to the individual receiving the

graph: students underestimate earnings with various majorse

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Learning about Potential Earnings Changes Students’ Choice of College Major

May 5, 2020 admin careers, college

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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