markets with several public and private schools are now pervasive in low- and middle-income countries, prudent policy requires …

; compounded over 5 years of primary schooling, this difference is similar in size to the test score gap between low- and high-income … countries. Second, students learn more in private schools (0.15 sd per year on average), but substantial within-sector variation … in quality means that the effects of reallocating students from public to private schools can range from -0.35sd to +0 …

ratings distribution, decreases adult criminal involvement. Accountability pressures also reduce the propensity of students …

-need schools on students' longer-run educational, criminal justice, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. Using linked …

needs, money on hand, use of friends and family for assistance, and employment) of families and children with very low … Child Tax Credit (CTC), which provided monthly, unconditional cash payments to families with children from July to December …

Access to safe and stable housing is important for child and adult wellbeing. Yet many low-income households face … parameterized difference-in-differences method and use national data from a sample of parents who are receiving, or recently … higher likelihood that parents reported a change in their living arrangements as well as reduced household size, an effect …