Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects … greater for girls, yielding a very substantial reduction in gender inequalities in access to education. Significantly, though …

and the Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the impact of education interventions on …

Canals-Cerd?? and Ridao-Cano investigate the effect of work on the school progress of rural Bangladeshi children. They … specify a dynamic switching model for the sequence of school and work outcomes up to the end of secondary school, where the … switching in each school level is determined by the endogenous work history of the child up to that level. This approach allows …

relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas … yields only small increases in average school participation, and only small reductions in within-country inequality. The data … endogenous school placement. Data can be geographically matched over time in three of the study countries and under some …

reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school … provide a comparable education to traditional schools. Estimating the effects of distance on academic outcomes, children prove …