persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of children with lower achievement does not hamper their ability or … that is uncorrelated with those indicators allows a test of whether parental decisions to keep their child in school is … school continuation. "--World Bank web site …

) early school leaving; iii) risky sexual behavior leading to early childbearing and HIV/AIDS; iv) crime and violence; v …

exacerbated by the need to ensure a suitable range of subject expertise among the teachers at a school …

school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations … (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly …

requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of …. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percentage … believed that there was a school enrollment requirement attached to the transfers, even though such a requirement was never …