Rwanda is not on track to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals at a time when hopes for scaled-up aid are mixed with concerns that, in the context of the global economic crisis, aid instead will be scaled down. This paper analyzes the effects of alternative scenarios for grant aid,...

The implications of foreign aid on economic growth and employment have been subjected to intense debate, with most studies focused on aggregated aid. However, different types of aid will probably affect growth and employment differently. Therefore, aggregating aid flows are most likely to...

Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find...

Extensive global evidence suggests that conditional cash transfers (CCTs) encourage long-term investment in human capital by poor households. However, CCTs also have the potential to distort incentives for investment among children. If only some children in the household are monitored/subsidized...

Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of hybrid interventions (which combine in-person and remote...

The purpose of the study is to identify the level of public spending on education in the Visegrad Group countries in 2011-2021. The source material was data from the European Statistical Office for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, collected in accordance with the International...

Das BAföG soll Bildungspotenziale ausschöpfen und Chancengleichheit fördern. Dafür hat es zwei wesentliche Steuerungshebel: Freibeträge und Bedarfssätze. Anpassungen beider Größen werden bisher nicht auf Grundlage belegbarer Ergebnisse zur Zielerreichung, sondern in politischen...

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we...

This paper seeks to evaluate whether there is any impact on aid effectiveness when there is a different gender composition of parliaments in recipient countries. The sample observed refers to 40 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2007-2019. The findings gained demonstrate that a...