performers on girls' high school placement outcomes. We disentangle two channels through which peers of either sex can play a … role: academic performance and school preferences. We also focus on the effects of peers along the distribution of baseline …

This paper provides novel insights into the science of scaling by examining an educational mentoring program in Mexico …'s outcomes. This improvement is observed in both the field experiment and the subsequent large-scale government adoption. We also … find that the new program's enhanced mentor-parent interactions stimulate parental engagement at the community-school level …

secondary schools in Mexico City. The program consisted in offering free additional math courses, taught by undergraduate … schools in Mexico City. We exploit the information available in all students' (treated and not treated by the program …-in-differences approach, we find that students participating in the program observed a higher increase in their school grades after the …

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

This paper estimates the effects of extending the school day during elementary school on students' education outcomes … later in life. We do so in the context of Mexico City's metropolitan area, where a large-scale program introduced in 2007 … extended the school day from 4.5 to 8 hours in schools that adopted the program. We exploit cohort-by-cohort variation in …

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

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the … due to changes in parents' perception of their children's ability. -- peer effects ; schooling ; field experiment …

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

home visit component implemented at scale in Mexico, under different modalities (original and enhanced training for mentors …) and different situations (field experiment and policy implementation). While the program was ineffective when implemented … experiment and during the government implementation. Higher-quality home visits encourage parent/child and parent …