, which was developed to keep large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis. It was … expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, as … have been effective in reducing dropouts in the lower secondary school (where students are more susceptible to dropping out …

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 …

" non-cognitive return to schooling. However, once the treated group is expanded to include secondary school students, the … bias. For this treated group (mixture of basic school and secondary school age students), the labor market rewarded …

This paper studies the long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program … that school construction leads to higher government tax revenues and improved living standards that offset construction …

the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school … in French-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. The …

, 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 …

This study evaluates the impact of a community-based information campaign on school performance from a cluster … Indian states to disseminate information to the community about its state mandated roles and responsibilities in school … school outcomes. …

student learning. Parents and school committees are neither aware of their oversight roles nor participating in school …