has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic … contamination of tubewells, the primary source of drinking water at home, on the learning outcome of school-going children in rural … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention – The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project … – in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools … and 18% for children in the two age cohorts 6-8 and 6-10. They perform as well as non-ROSC schools in terms of raising …

statistically insignificant. Moreover, once school-specific differences are also accounted for, Vietnamese students do just as well …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic … secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … students attending non-madrasah schools. However, failure to account for non-random sorting over-estimates the negative …