The level of educational attainment in Mozambique is one of the lowest in the world and primary school completion rate …) the determinants of school dropout; (2) the variables that are associated with school dropout in the year of the survey … pregnancy are consistently associated with higher dropout rates. Our results also suggest that building or renovating a school …

implementation, evaluation, and needed recalibration of the management of school clusters; (3) teacher recruitment, training, and …

countries, where OLS estimates underestimate returns to schooling, with the implication that former school dropouts tend to have … higher returns than those who were already in school before the law changed. Ability bias is more likely to arise in … developing countries, possibly because parents might be forced to keep only children with higher abilities in school, reinforcing …

The debate on whether democracy and inequality increase the level of redistribution is ongoing. We construct a model … consistent with previous conclusions that democracy enhances redistribution measured by tax revenues and government expenditures …

Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school …

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science …

democratic governance. The analysis distinguishes between developmental aid and democracy aid, and examines democracy aid to …-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties … of Democracy project, employing a combination of a maximum likelihood estimation and structural equation modelling (ML …