reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or … bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. This paper … labor and indigenous households. While indigenous children had a greater probability of working in 1997, this probability is …

school network has witnessed an impressive expansion since the signing of the Peace Agreement in 1992. Enrollments in lower … teachers, and the number of school shifts and of daily hours of instruction, have improved only marginally. Given that … obviously declining dramatically, as pupils move through the system. There is considerable debate in Mozambique on formal and …

teachers' competence, facilitating school management, inspection, planning and data gathering. This is being achieved by … involving stakeholders at all levels in the process of primary school improvement. The National Primary Education Commission …

Worms infect more than one third of the world's population, with the most intense infections in children and the poor …. In the poorest countries, children are likely to be infected from the time they stop breast-feeding, and to be … continually infected and re-infected for the rest of their lives. Only rarely does infection have acute consequences for children …

chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …"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 …

, allowing more consumption and investment. In particular, remittances can afford investing in children's human capital, a key … girls and young boys (less than 14 years old) from recipient households seem to be more likely to be enrolled at school than …

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 …