first grade for a Mexico City private school that targets and subsidizes attendance for low-income children. Over three … more satisfied with their school and had higher educational expectations for their children. Unlike findings from low … indicate gains made by the lowest income students in the sample help explain the school's impact. This suggests private schools …

organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered by private school boards, and all schools … are government funded equally. This allows school choice. Using an instrument to identify school choice, it is shown that … the Dutch system promotes academic performance. The instrumental variables results show that private school attendance is …

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

Multidimensional measures of poverty have become standard as complementary indicators of poverty in many countries …. Multidimensional poverty calculations typically comprise three indices: the multidimensional headcount, the average deprivation share … counterfactual simulations--to break up the changes of the multidimensional poverty headcount into the variation attributed to each …

Surveys in 2010, 2012, and 2014 to investigate the relationship between environmental risks and poverty. Using recently … drought hazards, the study shows: (i) at the district level, there are hotspots of high poverty and environmental risks; (ii …

This paper studies study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and …) received report cards. This increased test scores by 0.11 standard deviations, decreased private school fees by 17 percent, and … increased primary enrollment by 4.5 percent. Heterogeneity in the treatment impact by initial school quality is consistent with …

and nature of private school participation at the primary and secondary levels in Pakistan. Today, one-fifth of children …, wealthier, and more educated households than do government school students and especially out-of-school children. Important …. Private school participation among children varies largely from one household to another, rather than within households, and …

selection, it found that students in eighth grade mathematics achieve more in both types of private school than they do in …

design to estimate the causal impacts of the program on private school performance. The study finds that the public …