Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

To address the educational gap, many Latin American countries are focusing on extension of the school day and …'s implementation. Participating schools are compared with nonparticipating schools after controlling for school selection into the … Educa??o has on average no impacts on school dropout rates and average negative impacts on mathematics test scores. The …

after the program was launched. When students, teachers, and parents in a school know that their scores are low, and this …

Even as primary-school enrollments have increased in most low-income countries, levels of learning remain low and … access to skilled teachers brings more children into school and increases test-scores in language and mathematics. These …

This working paper presents a benchmarking analysis of School Based Management (SBM) using empirical data from the … Philippines. School based management is widely used as a policy tool in many countries that seek to improve the quality of service … delivery through decentralization. School based management typically takes many years to have an impact on educational outcomes …

This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and … interventions: training for school committee members, a democratic election of school committee members, or facilitated … collaboration between the school committee and the village council, also called linkage. Nearly two years after implementation, the …

school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on … school participation, little is known about the long-term impacts of the programs on human capital. This paper investigates … transfer program in Colombia, attained more school and performed better on academic tests at the end of high school …

the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school … in French-occupied areas. The impacts are statistically significant for school-age girls and not for school-age boys. The …

Working with the Mexican Ministry of Education, this study piloted a scalable program to reduce high school dropout … participate actively in the program and drop out of school less often, while other students choose not to participate when given …

The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy. The authors … recognize that households will respond optimally to changes in school inputs and study how such responses affect the link … between school inputs and cognitive achievement. To incorporate the forward-looking behavior of households, the authors …