attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …

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 …

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 …

-section, suggest that recent efforts by the Peruvian government to incorporate non-cognitive skill development into the school …

school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing … 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school days in the region. It characterizes the differences in the … implementation of extended school day programs and provides one detailed case study and cost-effectiveness exercise, from Uruguay …

Improving the quality of education is one of today's main challenges for governments in the developing world. Based on … matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …