"Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …

school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations … (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly …

"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased …

"This paper estimates the relationship between family background, school characteristics, and student achievement in … primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database … is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools …