logit estimates indicate that madrasahs systematically attract children from poorer households, rural locations, and less … educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers during Covid-19 school closures. Post …-intervention, treated children scored 35% higher on a standardized test, and the homeschooling involvement of treated mothers increased by … 22 minutes per day (26%). We also found that the intervention forestalled treated children's learning losses. When we …

during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the SES gaps are partly due … to selection into different environments, the high PGS children are simply better at extracting resources from a given …

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that …

tutoring relates to the transition probability to an academically demanding post compulsory school and the probability to … successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … more likely to fail in the selective school than students who had the same level of competencies without tutoring. …

This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992 …, which opened up for publicly funded but privately operated schools. In many local school markets, this reform led to a …, and controlling for differential pre-reform municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private-school share by …