This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on … doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting considerable strain on school inputs. Since the policy targeted … stronger negative shocks to peer quality and school resources such as teacher credentials and perpupil expenditure. Then, I …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … typically underperform their older peers. Parents respond to lower performance by providing additional homework help, while …

This paper tries to investigate educational preferences of parents over their child's education using survey data from … examine the presence of gender bias in preference pattern of parents. Our results document that in addition to educational and … income status of parents' autonomy enjoyed by female in the family and dowry being exchanged at the time of parents' own …

, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

In this paper, we study the impact of disclosing information about school quality of private schools in Brazil on … school choice. Particularly, we investigate whether test score disclosure affected private schools' tuition prices. In 2006 …, Brazil started to announce the schools' average test score of ENEM, a high school exit exam run by the federal government …

force participation and the earnings of illiterate workers in Senegal. Controlling for selection bias, selective sorting …