migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …' achievement scores lag well behind those of their nativeborn schoolmates. Performance gaps are explained largely by differences in …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … participation deficit associated with disability is large, I provide results that are a relief to policy-makers. I use an event …

I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian …-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … policy worth pursuing in contexts that are concerned about a large number of schools. …

used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …

teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides …

the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools …) teachers by 10 percentage points. The policy also reduced the pupil-qualified teacher ratio by 27, or 61% of the mean, in …

education and the likelihood of being enrolled in college. …

the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry … examination required for higher education and the likelihood of being enrolled in a selective college …