"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement …, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly … chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …

series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits …

school systems in Brazil to obtain better results than would be expected based purely on socioeconomic factors. This report … education policy factors that appeared to help some municipal school systems obtain better-than-expected Prova Brasil results …

. How to do this, especially in primary school, where reading, writing and mathematical skills are first acquired, is the … results than giving schools cash grants for supplies or additional teachers. This project, which looks at only one school …

child in school. This is particularly the case for rural girls. Nonparametric analysis shows a universal increase in school …, interventions to increase school enrollment should incorporate broad-targeted, demand-side interventions as well as supply …

persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of children with lower achievement does not hamper their ability or … that is uncorrelated with those indicators allows a test of whether parental decisions to keep their child in school is … school continuation. "--World Bank web site …

score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors … assess the magnitude of the indigenous and non-indigenous test score gap and identify the main family and school inputs … by family and school characteristics is between 41 and 75 percent of the overall test-score gap. Furthermore, family …

household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of … almost always substantially less likely to start school, and in some countries have lower transition rates resulting in lower … schooling attainment. The order of magnitude of the school participation disability deficit is often larger than those …