Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic … secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered madrasahs fare worse in maths and English than … in rural Bangladesh. …

This paper uses new data on female graduates of registered secondary secular schools and madrasas from rural Bangladesh … and tests whether there exist attitudinal gaps by school type and what teacher-specific factors explain these gaps. Even … after controlling for a rich set of individual, family, and school traits, we find that madrasa graduates differ on …

-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for their …Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), runs a large number of non … effectiveness in closing the gender gap in primary school enrolment. On the other hand, registered non-government secondary madrasas …

-related indicators such as school participation rate, educational inequality, inputs and expenditure in cross-country regression models … statistically insignificant. Moreover, once school-specific differences are also accounted for, Vietnamese students do just as well …