School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

This paper uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to … the 5th to the 95th percentile in the public school TVA distribution would increase mean student test scores by 0 …

attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …

after the program was launched. When students, teachers, and parents in a school know that their scores are low, and this …

Even as primary-school enrollments have increased in most low-income countries, levels of learning remain low and … access to skilled teachers brings more children into school and increases test-scores in language and mathematics. These …

This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and … interventions: training for school committee members, a democratic election of school committee members, or facilitated … collaboration between the school committee and the village council, also called linkage. Nearly two years after implementation, the …

school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on … school participation, little is known about the long-term impacts of the programs on human capital. This paper investigates … transfer program in Colombia, attained more school and performed better on academic tests at the end of high school …

the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school … in French-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. The …

Working with the Mexican Ministry of Education, this study piloted a scalable program to reduce high school dropout … participate actively in the program and drop out of school less often, while other students choose not to participate when given …