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More than just lunch: School-meal subsidies and language proficiency

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches. We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the whole universe of applications to the programme. Using a Regression Discontinuity...

Presented by: Samuel Franco Lado - Universtat de Girona

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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Mode of delivery of the first child and progression to a second birth in the Norwegian population

Even in high-income populations quite high proportions of first-time mothers experience complications in pregnancy or delivery which may influence decisions about future fertility. Using register data from the whole Norwegian population, we investigate whether birth experiences of first-time mothers of liveborn singleton babies in 2007-2017 were associated with progression to...

Presented by: Professor Emily Grundy - Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16

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Broadcasting Education at Scale: Long-Term Labor Market Impacts of Television-Based Schools

This paper examines the long-term impacts of using information and communication technologies to scale up last-mile educational services. We exploit geographic variation and cohort exposure from 1980 to 2000 to Mexico's TV-schools--lower secondary schools that substitute on-site specialized teachers with televised lectures, serving over 1.4 million children annually. Cohorts in...

Presented by: Laia Navarro-Sola - Stockholm University

Venue: ISER Large Seminar Room 2N2.4.16