school either but remain idle instead. The conditions for a successful implementation of a half-day school vs. a full …-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families … of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school …

This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban … population in these neighborhoods, which covered both in-school and out-of-school youth, of both genders. The role of early … parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …