The medium run effects of educational expansion: evidence from a large school construction program in Indonesia

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Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “10 A similar study by Duflo et al. (2006) in two other rural districts in Kenya, Bungoma and ButereMumias, found free uniforms reduced dropout rates. By prolonging the time students spent in school, the uniforms also reduced the rates of teen marriage and childbearing. 11 The authors found that girl”
Growth Theory through the Lens of Development Economics (2004, unknown): “The paper by Banerjee and Duflo (2004) that we discussed above makes use of an exogenous policy change that affected the flow of directed credit to an identifiable subset of firms in India.”
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China (2012, background): “Duflo, E. (2004): “The medium run effects of educational expansion: evidence from a large school construction program in Indonesia,” Journal of Development Economics, 74(1), 163–197. Duranton, G., and D. Puga (2004): “Micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies,” in Handbook of Regional and U”
The Economics of Growth (2008, background): “depend upon institutions and policies in a way that varies with the country’s distance to the technological frontier a. Equation (I.1) incorporates Gerschenkron’s (1962) “advantage of backwardness,” in the sense that the further the country is behind the global technology frontier (i.”