Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the … increased earnings. What is not known is how much earnings will decline due to the school closures. Starting with the fact that … education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …

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 …

scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into … secondary school. An important policy implication is that a well-targeted scholarship program should be complemented with a …

school and attending classes regularly. There were no such requirements under the unconditional programs. The results … who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … enrollment of "marginal children" who are initially less likely to go to school, such as girls, younger children, and lower …

Despite the popularity and widespread implementation of school feeding programs, evidence on the impact of school … feeding on school participation and nutritional status is mixed. This study evaluates school feeding programs in three …-score weighting to construct two plausible counterfactuals. They find minimal evidence that the school feeding schemes increased …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school … preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison … experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved …

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 …