Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Education"

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    • Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps? 

      Ganguli Prokopovych, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ...

    • Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme 

      Levy, Dan; Ohls, Jim (Routledge, 2010)
      This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ...

    • Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning 

      Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Zajonc, Tristan (2009)
      Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational ...

    • International Affairs and the Public Sphere 

      Walt, Stephen Martin (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. There is today no shortage of global problems that social scientists should study in depth: ethnic and ...

    • The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries 

      Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend ...

    • Rank as an Incentive 

      Tran, Anh; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay (2009)
      Money is the prime incentive in economic models. Recent evidence makes it clear that people are also greatly concerned about how their incomes compare with those of others, suggesting that rank may be a strong motivator ...

    • “Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America 

      Ganguli, Ina; Hausmann, Ricardo; Viarengo, Martina (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
      In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to be married than unskilled women. Second, ...

    • Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts 

      Goodman, Joshua Samuel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)
      Low college enrollment rates among low-income students may stem from a combination of credit constraints, low academic skill, and low-quality schools. Recent Massachusetts data allow the first use of school district fixed ...

    • The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation 

      Goodman, Joshua Samuel (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      Left- and right-handed individuals have different brain structures, particularly in relation to language processing. Using five data sets from the US and UK, I show that poor infant health increases the likelihood of a ...