This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing countries, focusing on India and Indonesia?two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. It argues that this litigation has been part of broader...

Theoretical accounts of compliance with court orders emphasize the importance of transparency. Most empirical studies of compliance center on high profile political cases, largely ignoring the high-volume, quotidian claims against the state for basic services that constitute the largest share of...

Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely...