Taking advantage of unique longitudinal data, we provide the first characterization of what college students believe at … of why students hold the initial beliefs about majors that they do. The data collection and analysis are based directly … on a conceptual model in which a student's final major is best viewed as the end result of a learning process. We find …

learning in Indonesian primary schools. As the responsibility to deliver primary education has been decentralized to district … learning trajectories across districts. We document substantial heterogeneity in learning gains across districts. Furthermore …, we show that schools with more active teacher working groups and higher-qualified teachers achieve better learning gains …

in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three … students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …