objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on … 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 …

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. Malaria eradication resulted in gains in literacy and primary … school completion rates of approximately 12 percentage points. These estimates imply that the eradication of malaria can …

Number of international schools is rising in India recently. The trends are presented and various reasons for the … international education, and elitism are identified as a few major factors influencing the rise of international schools in India …. The future impact of the rise of international schools on the Indian school education scenario is analysed …

This paper explores gender inequality within households in the decision of private versus government school choice in … India. Using a three-period longitudinal dataset on rural households from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India, this … points in private school enrollment among children aged 6-16 years. Contrary to the trend in overall enrollment, the gender …

I evaluate the impact of right to education from the passing of Right To Education (RTE) Act in India in 2009. India … that school participation deficit associated with disability is large, I provide results which are relieving to policy …