the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … taller and have 5.3 more years of schooling than their providers (usually their parents), while female offspring are 4 … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

human capital and income growth. Rather than completeness, the objective of this work is to distill some of the most … (sections 2, 3 and 4). The note then reviews the micro empirical literature estimating labor income returns of human capital …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …