Giving power over school management and spending decisions to communities has been a favored strategy to increase … school quality, but its effectiveness may depend on local capacity. Grants are one form of such a transfer of power. Short …-term responses of a grant to school committees in Niger show that parents increased participation and responsibility, but these …

The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school … quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed … improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school ….25 (and 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent … treatment and control areas before and after a school intervention, show significant differences in subsequent schooling … consistent with females' greater incentives to study, driven by their higher returns to schooling, especially after high school …

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed …. The findings show that the school closures reduce future earnings. It is also likely that students from low … closures end after four months, with schools re-opening in the new academic year, and that school quality will not suffer …

school closures in Kenya. It compares changes in parents' labor participation after schools partly reopened in October 2020 … suggest that school closures account for over 30 percent of the fall in average work hours in the first few months after COVID … when a student returns to school. The impacts are not significantly different by sex of the adult. Although both women and …

challenges have their origins in the way in which political and bureaucratic elites have for decades used the school system to …