Teacher quality is widely believed to be important for education, despite little evidence that teachers' credentials … matter for student achievement. To accurately measure variation in achievement due to teachers' characteristics … large and statistically significant differences among teachers: a one standard deviation increase in teacher quality raises …

policy and regulatory power frameworks, during the process of power sector reform in Mexico. …

Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … households are more likely to be in school. We have analyzed these determinants for urban Pakistani children and framed some …