Primary school enrollment rates in Pakistan are lower than in other countries at the same level of economic development …. Nationally, the gross primary school ratio is 74, and 101 for boys and 45 for girls. According to the National Education Policy …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

Based on data out of the 1970s, the "Heyneman-Loxley Effect" proposed that in developing countries, school … characteristics were more important than family socioeconomic status in determining school achievement. In this paper, I reassess … model analysis reveal that school characteristics in the African context become even more important when national economic …

This paper aims to begin to fill in the gap about the possible role of school quality in affecting household decisions … relative to children’s work and school attendance. While from a theoretical point of view, we would expect school quality to be … stylized fact can be identified: cross country data show that children’s work and school attendance are negatively (positively …

This study looks at the policies and practices shaping teacher quality in the Kansas City, Missouri School District … (KCMSD). It is part of a series of analyses by the National Council on Teacher Quality in school districts across the nation …