We quantify the effect of school voucher spending on initial earnings. We use administrative data on the monetary …

hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices in upper secondary school. Using … more foreign language classes during compulsory school has only minor effects on educational choices of the overall student … pronounced for students who do not speak at home the school's language of instruction. Finally, we find that female students who …

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school …

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed … findings show that the school closures reduce future earnings. It is also likely that students from low-income countries will … after four months, with schools re-opening in the new academic year, and that school quality will not suffer. …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants … focused funds on human resources improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a …

as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …