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 … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

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 …

Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …

This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the … Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …

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 …

With an estimated 115 million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to … government girls'secondary schools (GSS). Identification is obtained by using official school construction guidelines as an … instrument for the presence of GSS. In contrast, there is little or no relationship between the presence of a private school and …

earthquake of January 2010, just 19 percent of primary school students were enrolled in public schools, with the remainder … Haitian schooling patterns in the last century and shows the country experienced tremendous growth in school attainment … the extent that primary school fees are higher for schools with characteristics associated with education quality. The …