educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher … learning in the context of the poor areas where PROSPERA principally operates, which tend to have overall low school quality … also confirms large effects on enrollment in secondary and high school, using administrative school enrollment data rather …

students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …