The performance of locally hired contract teachers is one of the concerns for educational sector in developing countries where the supply of civil servant teachers is limited. In Republic of Kenya, 75% of public primary school employ at least one locally hired teachers. In past literature,...

This paper investigates the long-term effects of in-utero exposure to floods. Using data from the Peruvian National Household Survey (ENAHO) over the period 2001--2017, I examine the completion of primary and secondary education for individuals born between 1975 and 1983 following the exposure...

This study uses the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) data, the only cross-national data having measured educational achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic, to investigate educational achievement decline of fourth graders across 21 European countries between 2016 and...

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

I explore the causal effects of single-sex high schools on long-term labor market outcomes using a unique feature of educational policy in South Korea--—the random assignment of students to single-sex versus coeducational high schools. I find that the effect of single-sex schooling on earnings...

I investigate the causal effect of education on time preferences. To deal with the endogeneity of education, I exploit exogenous variation in education imposed by the 1997 Turkish school reform that raised compulsory education from five to eight years. I find that education causes individuals to...

We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in 2013 on children's early enrolment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple difference, and synthetic control methodologies, we find...

This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a...