Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …. Analyzing the test scores, we find that after the program's introduction, both math and reading scores of treated children did …

intergenerational cognitive persistence. The improvement in cognitive mobility across generations might be attributed to enhanced school … attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …

equitable quality education for all.” Many children with disabilities in low-income countries, however, continue to be excluded …. Realizing the right to inclusive education for children with disabilities requires policies and practices that are tailored to … and key informant interviews), this chapter explores the inclusiveness, equality, and quality of education for children …

books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …

the implications of school closures of primary to upper-secondary schools for virus transmission, student learning, and … mental health among children and adolescents in high-income countries. Subject to severe methodological challenges, most … studies indicate that the initial school closures at least to some extent contributed to a reduction of virus transmission …

This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma … precise to the week. We find that longer schooling decreases the probability of getting pregnant during the school year but …

disadvantaged backgrounds, and children spending the entire day at school; they do not depend on the choice of the reference group …Using census data on three cohorts of 5th grade Italian students we investigate how the ordinal rank in the within-school … age distribution affects the probability of being bullied. Identification is achieved by exploiting within-school between …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …