– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention – The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project … findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 …

This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction … where the probability of children's school participation varies with respect to a non‐economic factor – how the community … Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) is combined with community information on the availability of non‐religious secondary …

BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which … target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their effectiveness in closing gender gap … in primary school enrollment. On the other hand, registered non-government secondary madrasas (or Islamic schools) today …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …

involuntary school choice, using survey data and standardized test scores from field work conducted in Shanghai. We find that … in both Chinese and Mathematics. We also use parental satisfaction and parental assessment of school quality as …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze … whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher … larger when based on parents' SDQ scores compared to teachers' SDQ scores. According to our estimations, the school outcomes …