non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression …

discontinuity design. Ten years later, primary school-age children in villages selected for the program attend school more often and … children exposed earlier in the program. Secondary-school-age youths and young adults (those old enough to have finished …We evaluate the long-term effects of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression …

deviations. The change in test scores for those children caused to attend school by the program is 2.2 standard deviations. We … enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20 percentage points and increased their test scores by 0.45 standard … school access from the unique characteristics of the new schools, we find that the unique characteristics were responsible …

Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through … children in modern American history. Using large Census samples that are linked to Social Security records containing county of … school ages when a local order was implemented. These effects are strongly concentrated in the South, with largely null …

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days … decreased. For these students, the incentive was also associated with lower interest in school material and lower optimism and …

In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention - the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden … children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …

education and child labor legislation became more stringent and potentially constrained secondary-school aged youths. It might … of the increase in high school enrollments and can account for about the same portion of the increase in the eventual …

schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

that children and mothers report a lower likelihood of work in drought years, and children are more likely to attend school …. In addition, we find long term impacts of these shocks: adults who experienced more rainfall during school years have … for fairly young children, is an important factor in determining overall human capital investment …