This paper studies the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test … scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. The identification strategy is the random allocation into … secondary school. An important policy implication is that a well-targeted scholarship program should be complemented with a …

school systems, with the rationale that economies of scale will enable higher quality education to be delivered in an … educational infrastructure consolidation on educational attainment using the case of China's rural primary school closure policies … in villages' year of school closure and children's ages at closure to identify the causal impact of school closure. For …

We study the effects of increasing cash grants on the education attainment of low-income middle and high school … students in Mexico. Starting in 2009, the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer (CCT) program increased the average grant in … middle and high school by 27 percent for females and 30 percent for males in 263 of 630 urban localities in the country …

of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and … program across municipalities. The results show that extending the school day has no effect on the probability of being … enrolled in school, but a positive effect on the weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. When focusing on child labor …

Many studies have demonstrated that Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, has substantial effects on … educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher … learning in the context of the poor areas where PROSPERA principally operates, which tend to have overall low school quality …

This paper estimates the effects of having children at home on the labor market outcomes of women in Mexico during the … negative impacts on their labor supply immediately after school and daycare closures, compared to women without children … children increased their labor supply relatively more than women without them, despite ongoing school closures, suggesting a …