hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and … program across municipalities. The results show that extending the school day has no effect on the probability of being … enrolled in school, but a positive effect on the weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. When focusing on child labor …

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and … contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of … Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce …

that these programs are good at promoting certain outcomes such as school attendance, but that other outcomes such as … regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques—simple comparison of mean outcomes, regression analysis … and propensity score matching—we examine the program's impact on school attendance, performance in school and child labor …

objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on … students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …