This paper assesses the impact of school feeding programs on internal effectiveness (dropout and grade repetition) of public primary schools in Senegalese rural area using a “randomized trial”. Our study sample consists of 120 schools, which did not have school canteens before the...

In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly assigned to class. We find a strong asymmetry: males do not and females do benefit from exposure to...

The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged...