I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … also find that consolidation increased school enrolment in a village by 2 per cent- in particular, girls' enrolment …

We examine whether parental and school investments reinforce or compensate for student performance. Our analysis … exploits school-starting-age rules in 34 countries, capturing achievement variation that arises because younger children … school investments are substitutes. …

This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …

This study analyzes the factors associated to the school desertion in the City of Cartagena and two case studies … incidence in the probability of school desertion. According to the results, academic factors explain in a greater proportion the …