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

consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the implications of 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 …

up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports …'s readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … the school readiness literacy domains and overall score by 0.19 and 0.2 standard deviation, respectively, for girls and …

The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education … paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of … characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory …

This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent … treatment and control areas before and after a school intervention, show significant differences in subsequent schooling … consistent with females' greater incentives to study, driven by their higher returns to schooling, especially after high school …

The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school … quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed … improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality …

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 …

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 …