Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

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. …

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention – The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project … – in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools … findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 …

This study reports evidence from an unusual policy intervention- The Reaching Out of School Children (ROSC) project in … Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools comprised of a … findings suggest that there is a modest impact on school participation: ROSC schools increase enrolment probability between 9 …

We analyze the effect of school expenditure on children’s test scores at age 16 by means of an education production …