learning in Indonesian primary schools. As the responsibility to deliver primary education has been decentralized to district … learning trajectories across districts. We document substantial heterogeneity in learning gains across districts. Furthermore …, we show that schools with more active teacher working groups and higher-qualified teachers achieve better learning gains …

The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … been a subject of intense debate. Building on a simple model that makes explicit the role of school fees in determining the … optimal level of parental participation to school governance, this paper contributes to the debate by evaluating empirically …

single Black women’s school attainment and early employment. We do not find consistent evidence that high Black male …

This paper studies efficiency in the provision of public education by local authorities using Data Envelopment Analysis … (DEA). Viewing education as a multilevel production process the models control for differences at other levels. Most … important is the students' socioeconomic backgound and a number of alternative ways of modelling this are proposed. Mean …

the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …