students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds reaching the upper secondary level. In addition, high returns to education have …

72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …

approximately 20,000 high school students in Brazil through a randomized control trial. The program increased student financial … likelihood of financial planning, and greater participation in household financial decisions by students. "Trickle-up" impacts on … finds evidence that the program affected students' inter-temporal preferences and attitudes …

systems, including a declining share of vocational students. Exposing more students to a general curriculum could improve …

scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into … eligible students do not seem to have the minimum learning level to face successfully the academic requirements of upper …

This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region … Trade Organization accession along with environmental emissions data in Russia for seven pollutants that are tracked for all … Organization accession allows Russia to import better technologies and reduce pollution from the "technique effect," on balance …

In this paper we develop a computable general equilibrium model of the regions of Russia to assess the impact of … accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate that the average gain in welfare as a …