(tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

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 …

's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of … conditionality. Making use of random variation in the day on which punishments are received, we find that school attendance increases …