Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …

more rigidly enforced outside a girl's own hamlet. Results indicate a substantial decrease in primary school enrollment … rates for girls who have to cross hamlet boundaries to attend, irrespective of school distance, an effect not present for … boys. However, low-caste children, both boys and girls, are deterred from enrolling when the most convenient school is in a …

Evidence on the impacts of a large-scale expansion in pre-primary education is limited and mostly circumscribed to high …- and middle-income nations. This study estimates the effects of such an expansion on progression in primary school in rural … pre-primary education increased by 2.4 percentage points the proportion of students that progress adequately and attend …

. The differences in primary school test scores between a child who has no early education exposure and a child who …This paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia. It … documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed …

. The differences in primary school test scores between a child who has no early education exposure and a child who …This paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia. It … documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed …

. The differences in primary school test scores between a child who has no early education exposure and a child who …This paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia. It … documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed …

, demographic, cultural, seasonal and school-supply factors simultaneously that can influence child labor. It is a first attempt in … with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child … labor appear to include, in particular, the structure of the economy, social norms and no returns to rural basic education …

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … health and education at least as highly as the' commercial' ones …

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 …