72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegria secondary schools in Colombia using … students belong. Simple statistics suggest that Fe y Alegria schools perform worse than other schools for all years in the … sample. However, Fe y Alegria schools also cater to poorer students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Once controls …

-grouping students by age in the sample can improve math and science test scores by roughly 0.1 standard deviations. According to past …

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …

data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …

Vietnamese students may be approaching their studies with higher diligence and discipline, their parents may have higher …

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

A substantial gap in test scores exists between indigenous and non-indigenous students in Latin America. Using test … score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors …

recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have …