scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into … secondary school. An important policy implication is that a well-targeted scholarship program should be complemented with a …

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 …