it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement of a specific target for academic grades, behaviour and attendance …, coupled with information sessions on the importance of educational achievement. In 2012, all Indigenous students enrolled in … Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and provides an evaluation of its effectiveness. The program is of special interest as …

In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those … between the concepts of, and the relationships between, financial education, financial literacy and financial behavior to … identify the true effects of financial education. The review addresses possible biases caused by third factors such as numeracy …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … the impact of three educational institutions on student achievement. Chapter 5 evaluates the success of the Federal …

in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …' achievement scores lag well behind those of their native-born schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill … terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In …

Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives … students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education …

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … participation deficit associated with disability is large, I provide results that are a relief to policy-makers. I use an event …

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian …-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … policy worth pursuing in contexts that are concerned about a large number of schools. …

used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a 'stoplight' system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …