-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report … who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student …

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya … activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing …

The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to …

School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …

students'school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …

future supply of skilled labor and economic growth. Evidence on these issues from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Kenya …