-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrollment did not translate into improved performance of the students … not improve compared to the control group. We attribute this result to the deteriorating physical and learning …

-primary sections of the government schools. However, the rise in enrolment did not translate into improved performance of the students … not improve compared to the control group. We attribute this result to the deteriorating physical and learning …

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and … contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of … Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce …

This paper tries to disentangle the relative importance of family and school inputs on a child's cognitive achievement … States with Canadian data. In contrast to their work that uses state-level indicators of school quality, we estimate our …-level information on the family and school history of the child. The sample used for the analysis is based on the 7- to 15-year old …

5058 students in 270 classes from 98 schools in St. Petersburg. To examine class-level effects, we employ multi … academic performance and popularity is gender-specific. The results demonstrate that in classes with a low learning motivation …

obesity peer effects in New York City schools for students in grades 1-12. Using student fixed effects, I address issues … regressions, I show that peer effects decline in BMI. This means that students with obesity are less influenced by social norms in … BMI than students with healthy weights. My results imply that small social effects in BMI exist, but policymakers hoping …

identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the … affected school years with no adjustments in the core curriculum. The lost in-school instruction was mainly compensated for by …

students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks in Poland, one of Europe's longest …The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school … periods of shutdown. Comparison of the learning outcomes with pre- and post-COVID-19 samples shows that the learning loss was …

pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy is based on the fact that for this school Fe y Alegría conducted a … lottery to determine which students would be accepted onto first grade. We could prepare our estimates only for one school … estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary …