cautionary tale. The overall impact of the program on a wide set of children’s early childhood outcomes was small and not … cognition. Moreover, for this group, the intervention increased inequality as the negative impacts are largest for children of … school in the absence of preschools, stricter enforcement of the minimum age for primary school entry after the intervention …

programme increased school participation of 14 to 17 year old children quite substantially, by between 5 and 7 percentage points … that some, but not all, of the increased time at school may be drawn from children’s leisure time. … in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use …

redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We …

family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …

schools who decide to apply for the program, and a second one caused by students when choosing school. We take several routes … indicate that there is a clear negative effect on learning the subject taught in English for children whose parents have less … than upper secondary education, and no clear effect for anyone on mathematical and reading skills, which were taught in …

We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. We exploit a major textbook …

'causal' estimate of the effect of schooling on the literacy and numeracy performance of school students in their middle years … of secondary school (in Year 9 for most students). The Early Years of School policy changed the way that an identifiable … subset of students progressed through junior primary school, causing them to obtain an additional year of schooling for any …

increasing level of private school subsidies since the mid-1970s has contributed to a steady increase in the proportion of … students enrolled in private schools. This growth in the private school share of enrolments was not inevitable, but has been … student body. One consequence is that a higher proportion of government school students now come from low socio …