' perceptions of school management. When teacher data are matched with school-level data on student achievement using a national … assessment data set (SIMCE), some teacher and school characteristics affect student performance, but a great deal of unexplained … authority, whether the school schedule is strictly enforced, and the extent to which teachers have autonomy in designing …

relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas … yields only small increases in average school participation, and only small reductions in within-country inequality. The data … endogenous school placement. Data can be geographically matched over time in three of the study countries and under some …

a larger reduction in school funding, and (ii) appear to have exited public schools partially in reaction to increased …

, where the child-specific program makes modest transfers, conditional on school enrollment for children of middle-school age …. Scholarship recipients were more than 20 percentage points more likely to be enrolled in school and 10 percentage points less … likely to work for pay. However, the school enrollment and work of ineligible siblings was largely unaffected by the program. …

The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy. The authors … recognize that households will respond optimally to changes in school inputs and study how such responses affect the link … between school inputs and cognitive achievement. To incorporate the forward-looking behavior of households, the authors …

school-going age. In Rwanda school enrollment trends suggest that the school system recovered quickly after 1994, but these …

direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in … public schools? To address this question, the authors draw on data from the provincial school censuses of 2003 and 2005. They … strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in …

important fact that has been left out of the debate on Pakistani education. Moreover, when the authors look at school choice …) child to a public or private school or both. Widely promoted theories simply do not explain this substantial variation …

This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school … preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison … experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved …

This paper estimates the relationship between family background, school characteristics, and student achievement in … primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database … is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools …