first grade for a Mexico City private school that targets and subsidizes attendance for low-income children. Over three … more satisfied with their school and had higher educational expectations for their children. Unlike findings from low … indicate gains made by the lowest income students in the sample help explain the school's impact. This suggests private schools …

This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models … (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage …This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in … being enrolled in school, but affects weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. Moreover, exposure to the program …

this gap by estimating the returns to private high schools in Mexico. We construct a unique dataset that combines labor … market outcomes and historical school census data, and we exploit changes in the availability and size of public and private … in a private high school on wages after college graduation, and we discuss alternative mechanisms that can explain this …

poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …