learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have … decreased for schools and students that were lower performing at baseline. Finally, the study finds that incentivizing students …

This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil … reduction of one birth for roughly every 50 to 100 students who enroll in secondary education. The results highlight the …

Policy makers in Brazil attempted to improve human capital through changes in the legislated requirements for teacher … education on students' performance in math and Portuguese and analyze the role of the pre-service training framework in the … the treated on public upper secondary students through the combination of difference-in-difference and propensity score …

This paper evaluates the academic impact of a growth-mindset intervention on students starting the secondary level in …'s own intelligence is malleable. Students in schools randomly assigned to treatment showed a small improvement in math test … scores and educational expectations, with a large and sustained impact in test scores among students outside the capital city …

Students in low-income countries often have trouble learning to read; 80-90 percent of second and third graders in some … all students must somehow learn fluent reading very quickly when they start school in order to then progress to higher …

university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … students' graduation. The paper complements earlier evidence that documented small, short-term impacts on entry into self …

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …

School safety and classroom disciplinary climate have a direct impact on teachers' ability to teach and students …