-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …

introduced school vouchers or cash transfers programs that are targeted to disadvantaged children. Others have initiated programs … to attract or retain students by expanding school access or by setting higher teacher eligibility requirements or … the incentives and constraints faced by all parties involved, the school providers, the parents and the children. The …

About 80% of the world's children live in developing countries. Their well-being as adults depends heavily on the … education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … still leave school at a young age and often learn little while in school. This chapter reviews recent research on the impact …

affects cognition, a component of human capital critical to decision-making, in late adulthood. We show that an extra year of … schooling improves memory and general cognition performance. We detect heterogeneous treatment effects by gender: the effects …-age cognition. …