This paper investigates the determinants of primary school enrollment, attendance and child labor in Bolivia from 1999 … common belief, being extremely poor and indigenous are the main determinants of school attendance. Although extremely poor … children increased their school attendance, they were not able to reduce child labor. However, for indigenous children school …

objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on … 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 …

a requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the … Ecuador. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 … believed that there was a school enrollment requirement attached to the transfers, even though such a requirement was never …

children's school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on geographical variations in the price of food (wheat …). The results show that the negative impacts of food price increase on school enrollment differ by gender, economic status …, and the presence of siblings. The negative effects on school do not directly correspond to the increase in child labor …

direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab, Pakistan: Did the intervention increase female enrollment in … public schools? To address this question, the authors draw on data from the provincial school censuses of 2003 and 2005. They … strategies suggests that the average program impact between 2003 and 2005 was an increase of six female students per school in …

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 …

school and attending classes regularly. There were no such requirements under the unconditional programs. The results … who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … enrollment of "marginal children" who are initially less likely to go to school, such as girls, younger children, and lower …

of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find …