requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of … the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador …. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percentage …

This paper aims to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban … the population in these neighborhoods, which cover both in-school and out-of-school youth of both genders. They focus on … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …

school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those (young) adults who …

reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or … bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. …

employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the … attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during … available and may therefore put more effort into school. He concludes with a discussion of the implications of his findings for …

children's school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on geographical variations in the price of food (wheat …). The results show that the negative impacts of food price increase on school enrollment differ by gender, economic status …, and the presence of siblings. The negative effects on school do not directly correspond to the increase in child labor …

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 …