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THE IMPACT OF MICROFINANCE ON HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES FOR HEALTH AND EDUCATION:EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL IMPLEMENTED IN HYDERABAD, INDIA
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Since the late 1970s, microfinance has been popular in the developing world. This paper studies whether the effect of microfinance on household expenditures for education and health varies by business propensity (i.e., the ...
Educational Attainment and Morality: An Empirical Study
(Georgetown University, 2013)
I use ordinary least squares regression with year and region of birth fixed effects to estimate the relationship between educational attainment and morality. Morality is broken into six categories. I find statistically ...
Do Profits Incentivize Academic Performance? Estimating the Relationship Between Profit Status and Student Test Scores in Charter Schools
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Roughly one-quarter of all charter school students in the U.S. attend a school managed by a for-profit management organization. Limitations in the scope of previous research prevent researchers from understanding whether ...
THE IMPACT OF DIVORCE ON THE LIKELIHOOD OF GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL BY AGE 20
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Research has shown negative associations between marital instability and success metrics among children of such families. Among the negative academic outcomes is an increased rate of high school dropout among children of ...
Effects of Parental Involvement on the Academic Performance of Children of Immigrants
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Using 1992, 1995, and 2002 individual-level data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, I estimate the effects of parental involvement on children of immigrants' academic performance. I identify seven parental ...