work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … information on the duration of schooling in order to compute survival probabilities or the probability of dropping out of school … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop …

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …