--a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to …

Though the national education system, including primary education, is neither compulsory, nor free in Mozambique, the … primary education (Ensino Primario do Primeiro Grau or EP1, grades 1 through 5) have reached near universal proportions. In …,800 to over 8,000. Indicators of the internal efficiency and quality of education, however, do not display the same pattern …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … farther from schools, and whose adult members experienced negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that …

Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a … education reform (the Organic Law of Education) which provided for nine years of compulsory basic education. They also obtain … alternative estimates using father's education as an instrument, in an attempt to derive high and low estimates of returns to …

"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although …