Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives … students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … participation deficit associated with disability is large, I provide results that are a relief to policy-makers. I use an event …

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian …-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … policy worth pursuing in contexts that are concerned about a large number of schools. …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to the policy change across birth cohorts and mother tongues to estimate … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly …

academic redshirting, should be considered an important target for policy interventions. …

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …

's New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary …This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …

region, suggesting the education system is not delivering consistent gains to children across the country. …