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 …

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 …

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

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. …

significant and substantial gains in both math and language achievement scores, an approximately one-quarter standard deviation … increase in learning outcomes for the now young men. Hence in Nicaragua, schooling and achievement gains coincided, implying …