. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …This paper aims to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban …

Using data from Indonesia, Newhouse and Beegle to evaluate the impact of school type on academic achievement of junior … secondary school students (grades 7-9). Students that graduate from public junior secondary schools, controlling for a variety …

In the standard model of corruption, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, reflecting …

This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their … household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of … almost always substantially less likely to start school, and in some countries have lower transition rates resulting in lower …

. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low … primary enrollment; 93 percent of the children aged 7-14 are enrolled in school. However, 30 percent of the population aged 15 …Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector …

This paper evaluates a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one … based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ("merit"). Both targeting mechanisms increased enrollment and …

school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those (young) adults who … worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they estimate that from age 30 …

This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the … Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …

The author empirically explores the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever …--as an indicator of malaria--among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. He uses household Demographic and Health Survey data … between reported fever and poverty. The geographic association becomes insignificant, however, after controlling for the …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …