intervention provides scholarships for school-related expenses. The second provides the scholarship and an in-kind stipend … conditional on school attendance. Paying for schooling expenses promotes schooling but only at the beginning of the school year … when most schooling expenses occur. The scholarship combined with the conditional stipend increases school attendance rates …

education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

This paper investigates the determinants of primary school enrollment, attendance and child labor in Bolivia from 1999 … common belief, being extremely poor and indigenous are the main determinants of school attendance. Although extremely poor … children increased their school attendance, they were not able to reduce child labor. However, for indigenous children school …