countries where panel data to follow children over time exists, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter …

that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …

It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …

Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored … children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from … 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced …

markets platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, the paper shows that demand for the platinum …

on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …

background variable affecting consumption and income in Tanzania. Without appropriate policy actions, there are few chances for … the next generations to spring out of the poverty and inequality lived by their parents, engendering risks of poverty and …