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 authors evaluate whether increasing school resources and decentralizing management decisions at the school level ….S. states, offers US$15,000 grants for public schools to implement five-year improvement plans that the school's staff and … improvements in school outcomes, though perhaps not in the most troubled school systems. …

, which was developed to keep large numbers of children from dropping out of school as a result of the Asian crisis. It was … expected that many families would find it difficult to keep their children in school and that dropout rates would be high, as … have been effective in reducing dropouts in the lower secondary school (where students are more susceptible to dropping out …

relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas … yields only small increases in average school participation, and only small reductions in within-country inequality. The data … endogenous school placement. Data can be geographically matched over time in three of the study countries and under some …

To address the educational gap, many Latin American countries are focusing on extension of the school day and …'s implementation. Participating schools are compared with nonparticipating schools after controlling for school selection into the … Educação has on average no impacts on school dropout rates and average negative impacts on mathematics test scores. The …

This working paper presents a benchmarking analysis of School Based Management (SBM) using empirical data from the … Philippines. School based management is widely used as a policy tool in many countries that seek to improve the quality of service … delivery through decentralization. School based management typically takes many years to have an impact on educational outcomes …

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 …

This study examines trends in school dropout at the upper secondary education level across Latin America over the past … youth dropping out of school has remained persistently high, despite relatively favorable macroeconomic conditions …

over resource allocation, monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey this paper finds …

The relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes is critical for educational policy. The authors … recognize that households will respond optimally to changes in school inputs and study how such responses affect the link … between school inputs and cognitive achievement. To incorporate the forward-looking behavior of households, the authors …