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Explaining the urban-rural gap in cognitive achievement in Peru: The role of early childhood environments and school influences
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In Peru, students attending rural schools demonstrate extremely poor learning outcomes and obtain results significantly below those of students in urban schools. Because the process of cognitive skill formation is cumulative, differences in initial endowments, early environments and influences occurring later at home and at school can all play a role in shaping these gaps. This analysis aims at measuring the contribution of school and early childhood influences to the difference in cognitive ...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- Young Lives Publisher's website
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- Explaining the urban-rural gap in cognitive achievement in Peru: The role of early childhood environments and school influences
- Publication date:
- 2015-08-01
- ISBN:
- 9781909403536
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- 2016-09-30
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- 2015
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published version of "Explaining the urban-rural gap in cognitive achievement in Peru: The role of early childhood environments and school influences", a working paper published by Young Lives in 2015-08, available online: https://www.younglives.org.uk/sites/www.younglives.org.uk/files/YL-WP139-Castro.pdf
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