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 …

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 …

between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An … increase of one school per 100 females reduces a cohort's teenage birthrate by between 0.250 and 0.563 births per 100, or a …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, the paper does not find impacts of either …

school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian …

academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and …

-income households as access is tied to normal investments in children. This paper argues that conditionalities on children's school …

child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that … the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school … under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, they find …

in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in … Bangladesh. The results indicate that unimproved sanitation has a negative and significant impact on primary school enrollment. A … child's early exposure to unimproved sanitation decreases the likelihood of being enrolled in primary school by eight to ten …