The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in … hours and poverty and a negative association between child schooling and poverty. Both hypotheses are confirmed using … Pakistani data but not using Peruvian data. What explains these divergent results? The link between household poverty and child …

predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future …. However, low incomes and the obligation to meet immediate needs may forestall such investment. Studies suggest that school …

examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … achievement, independent of school poverty. Furthermore, we found that for neighbourhood poverty, especially enduring exposure … impacts on educational achievement, while the timing of exposure does not play a role. However, for school poverty, both …

educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to … school choice in Indonesia. …