Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

) in public schools in Delhi, India. Using the value added approach, we find substantial variation in teacher and student …

school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary … to middle grades, to study the effects of school-based supplementary nutrition on students' cognitive effort in the … the program as well as pre and post meal recess on a school day, we find that the provision of meals improved the …

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … but are important to consider when designing an experiment as causal effects of treatments can be attenuated if the …

employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for … discontinuity design (RDD) based on administrative rules on age of school enrolment. The class assigning mechanism operates via a … postponed the school starting age by 6 months and produced a large increase in the compliance rate. This enables one to gauge …

with heterosexual couples. We conduct a field experiment with schools during the children's pre-registration period. We …

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by …

In India, fluency in English remains a status symbol for the wealthy and educated middle class, while creating a divide … between those who have strong English language skills and those who do not. This study deploys a correspondence experiment … active stage of the experiment, expressions of interest were sent from female profiles to randomly assigned male profiles …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …