hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

, we find much smaller gains to delayed school start times compared to previous studies. …

participation and urban areas with larger numbers of alternative school districts appear to evoke a larger enrollment response. This … desegregation program and racial composition effects on academic, social, and labor market outcomes. The evidence on school …

introduced school vouchers or cash transfers programs that are targeted to disadvantaged children. Others have initiated programs … to attract or retain students by expanding school access or by setting higher teacher eligibility requirements or … the incentives and constraints faced by all parties involved, the school providers, the parents and the children. The …

Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in …-stakes occupational choices. Chapter 4 exemplifies that school curricula reforms can also have unintended consequences by showing that a … 5 highlights the fundamental role teachers, the transmitters of educational content in school, play in the formation of …

This paper analyses the most important experiences with school accountability policy (SA) in Brazil. The analysis … incorporate a system in which the school is responsible for the students’ performance; (ii) or the incentive schemes are not …