This paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from …'s New Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020). The divergent policy focus has led to differential trajectories for elementary … education in the two emerging economies, with China being decades ahead in improving literacy rates. China's adoption of the New …

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …

the social contract in Somalia use the lenses of security, education, and taxes to describe the current setting. It is …

-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education …

turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …

This paper studies the education gradient associated with health reporting errors for two highly prevalent non … with no schooling and less than middle school education relative to their more highly educated peers. Interestingly, this …

Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their … co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of … minority areas induce violence. To examine this question, we leverage the spatial and temporal variations in education …

the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most …-term education and earnings of individuals living in affected municipalities. We show a piece of evidence that the increase in child …