for the efficient provision of goods and services in a market economy. This paper explores the implications of school … measure of ability dispersion in a school, leading to lower skill acquisition …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

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 …

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 … secondary enrollment in registered madrasas. Drawing upon school enrollment data aggregated at the region level, we first show …

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on … school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006 …, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test score of ENEM, a high school exit exam run by the federal government …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous … findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender …-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …

We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered … implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in … this to estimate the effect of program exposure on math and reading test scores of primary school-aged children. We find …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …