In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …

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 …

school starting age. We show that estimating the effect of kindergarten or school enrolment timing on later human capital … results. The instruments originate from exogenous birthdate-related enrolment cutoffs in kindergarten and school admissions …. Using a rich Hungarian database, we show that both earlier kindergarten enrolment and later school enrolment have a …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated … the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, we look at non-compliers, namely those who … enter school one year before the official entry date. Based on an instrumental variable approach, the results show that …

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 …