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 …

, training, parental education, as well as a reliance on smaller class sizes. The results help extend the community school and …We analyze the effectiveness of the Programa Hondureno de Educacion Comunitaria (PROHECO) community school program in … rural Honduras. The data include standardized tests and extensive information on school, teacher, classroom, and community …

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 …

Canals-Cerda 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 …

investigate whether children's propensity to join school and to drop out of school responds to transient shocks. We also …