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. …

performance, college enrollment, choice, and persistence. On average, we find that children eligible to start school at a …Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We …

papers, and two policy notes on Out of School Children (OOSC) in the Philippines. These PIDS papers examined the magnitude of … the reasons why these children are out of school, and what makes children at risk of dropping out of school; and, discuss … estimates of out of school (both in magnitude and rates) ; profile OOSC and their families, as well as provide a discussion of …

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics … in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost … unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin remains virtually ignored in the literature surveying school attendance …

This paper studies the impact of compulsory schooling on in-school violence using individual-level administrative data … indicate that in-school violence increases. Effects concentrate among students with prior criminal records and their classmates …, with greater exposure to in-school violence leading to increased criminality at older ages. Dropout age reforms may alter …

across children to minimize its impact on formal education. …

effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile - essentially providing zero …