the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …

investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the …

potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing … teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in …

of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the … impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …

This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in … students who are directly affected by college expansion. We use high‐quality panel data with multiple wage observations, many … individuals with lower returns to college, but the returns for marginal students vary considerably depending on the scale of …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move between schools and thus generate … variation in peer composition in the receiving school-cohort. We identify three groups of potentially disruptive and emotionally …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender …-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a … age. Girls' school enrollment is more vulnerable to rainfall shocks than that of boys for 6-10 year olds, but there are no …