This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent … schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey that tracked students in the Philippines … treatment and control areas before and after a school intervention, show significant differences in subsequent schooling …

's readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … reading scores by approximately 0.18 standard deviation per year of exposure. Two cohorts of children were potentially exposed … intervention is found to have positive effects on early grade reading scores only among children in the reading intervention …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …

Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that … households will respond to changes in school inputs. This paper presents a dynamic household optimization model relating test … scores to school and household inputs, and tests its predictions in two very different low-income country settings -- Zambia …

factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … reflected in the intake of nutrients such as protein, calcium, and iron for children's physical growth. Vitamins A and C are … important for reducing morbidity. Children's growth and morbidity affect their cognitive development, which is critical for the …

a requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the … impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in … Ecuador. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 …

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 …

Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the …