"Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college, thus delaying the beginning of and shortening...

Benefit incidence analysis is an extremely popular tool to assess the distribution of benefits from government expenditure in developing countries, particularly in the social sectors. The analysis describes the welfare impact of public spending on groups of people or households, typically along...

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

Kenya, though it has various education interventions from the state and non-state actors is faced with very low literacy levels. Many of the residents engage in casual labour and subsistence farming for survival. With this low level of literacy, many of the parents are not aware of good...

Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college, thus delaying the beginning of and shortening...

The termination of universal primary education (UPE) led to an immediate reduction in the length of female education by 1.3 years in Kenya. With this quasi-experimental change, our paper identifies the long-term impacts of education on total fertility and child quality investment. One additional...