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 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 …

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 …

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 uses a unique dataset of both public and private sector primary school teachers and their students to … the 5th to the 95th percentile in the public school TVA distribution would increase mean student test scores by 0 …

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

This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The program, called as the … education provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most … Brazilian public schools, in which the school day is divided in two shifts of four to five hours each, Single-Shift schools …

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 …