in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …

clubs/teams/activities, skipping school, getting into fights, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, using … not in school as potential mediators. We find that: (1) Welfare reform had no favorable effects on any of the youth … skipping school, damaging property, and getting into fights among boys. (4) Welfare reform led to increases in smoking and drug …

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

that arrests of children and reported crimes involving children follow a different pattern: peaking during the school year … school year to show that this pattern is caused by school: children aged 10–17 are roughly 50% more likely to be involved in … a reported crime during the beginning of the school year relative to the weeks before school begins. This sharp increase …

teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …

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