Philippines, the analysis finds that some children, who were in neither school nor work before the program, increased …Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the … theoretical and empirical child labor literature, this paper shows that child work and school participation can be complements …

"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages …

on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the school day from … half- to full-day school. This article exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the reform's implementation by time … subsidy implicit in the lengthening of the school day. Using data from the Chilean socioeconomic household survey and …

. The study evaluates the evolution of the program's effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers over roughly a … effects on girls' secondary school enrollment numbers throughout the period and that these effects were stable. This pattern …

-income households as access is tied to normal investments in children. This paper argues that conditionalities on children's school … conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low …

-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report … who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students …

This note attempts to identify the factors associated with differences in overall school performance and efficiency. It … draws on data from the Philippines Public Education Expenditure Tracking and Quantitative Service Delivery Study (PETS … between public spending and education outcomes. The note found that school performance is related to several of these key …

Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …