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MacLeod, Margaret.

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Essays on human capital formation in sustainable development.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on human capital formation in sustainable development./
Author:	MacLeod, Margaret.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4799.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-12A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3388431
ISBN:	9781109544640

Essays on human capital formation in sustainable development.
MacLeod, Margaret.

Essays on human capital formation in sustainable development. - 199 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4799.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2009.

Deficiencies of health and education are two fundamental aspects of human capital often associated with intergenerational poverty traps. In three distinct studies, this work examines the impact of specific educational interventions and nutritional variation.

ISBN: 9781109544640Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Essays on human capital formation in sustainable development.
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520 $a In a natural experiment that uses seasonal variation in the timing of the Ramadan fast, I first examine the physiological impact of exposure to prolonged periods of maternal fasting during pregnancy, then look to other labor market outcomes. Growth delays are evident among children under nine who on average are one to three centimeters shorter than their peers depending of the trimester of exposure, but the effect is attenuated with age. A weak negative effect on health is also seen among those exposed in the second trimester whose average self reported general health is 0.1 points (on a scale of 1 to 9) lower than their unexposed peers.
520 $a In the Shishuvachan study, joint with Fang He and Leigh Linden, we assess the relative efficacy of a literacy skills development program in Mumbai, India on children in three types of educational institutions: public schools, a stand-alone reading class, and pre-schools. The new methods prove effective in all populations and, on average, all implementation strategies yield gains of between 0.12 and 0.70 standard deviations in performance on a basic literacy assessment. The program seems to be more effective as a supplement to existing instruction rather than as a primary means of instruction. We find, for example, that when implemented in public schools, an out-of-school time version of the program significantly improves scores over an in-school version of the program. Additionally, we find that programs based in existing institutions (public and preschools) provide much more robust gains in student performance than the stand-alone classes. Finally, in one experiment, we are also able to disaggregate the effect of the techniques by the reading ability of children's parents and find that while parents' skills are correlated with children's, the effects of the program are fairly uniform across all students.
520 $a The PicTalk study, joint with Fang He and Leigh Linden, uses a pair of randomized evaluations to assess the relative productivity of several modes of implementing an Indian English education curriculum. Each consists of a specially designed machine or flash card based activities implemented either indirectly through a teacher training program or directly by externally supervised teaching assistants. The new methods are very effective and, on average, all implementation strategies yield gains of about 0.25-0.35 standard deviations in students' knowledge of English. Weaker students benefit more from interventions that include teacher directed activities while stronger students benefit more from the more self-paced machine-based implementation. Compared to an externally implemented version of the curriculum, the treatments implemented through the teacher training program improved students' math and English scores rather than just their English scores, a result that may be due to the fact that teachers implemented the interventions more efficiently.
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