logit estimates indicate that madrasahs systematically attract children from poorer households, rural locations, and less …

Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic …

Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where children are a source of old age transfers. The … amount of old age transfers made by children as adults is influenced both by their schooling and by parental religiosity …. Parents also derive utility from educating a proportion of their children in madrasahs in a way that reflects their own …

This study documents the size and nature of "Hindu-Muslim" and "boy-girl" gaps in children's school participation and … experienced by girls and Scheduled Caste Hindu children. A gender gap still appears within as well as between communities, though …

has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic … contamination of tubewells, the primary source of drinking water at home, on the learning outcome of school-going children in rural … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention – The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project … – in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools … and 18% for children in the two age cohorts 6-8 and 6-10. They perform as well as non-ROSC schools in terms of raising …