This article relies on a large-scale field experiment in Mexico to measure the effects of two ability-grouping models … (tracking and heterogeneous/bimodal groups) on student learning outcomes during middle school. Both strategies yielded an …

how these analyses could valuably inform educational access initiatives like school construction and transportation … investments, and outline a variety of analytic extensions to gain deeper insight into the state of school access across a given … majority of Guatemalan population lives within 3 km of a public primary school, indicating a generally low incidence of …

Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage …This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in … being enrolled in school, but affects weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. Moreover, exposure to the program …