Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the
lives of Indian women, and yet female labor force participation has stagnated at under 30 …

Across a range of contexts, reductions in education costs and provision of subsidies can
boost school participation, often dramatically. Decisions to attend school seem subject to …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

We use a panel survey of~ 19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study
'learning loss' after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after …

This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the
Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a
focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant …

Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation
or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's
academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural …

Despite the rapid growth in enrollment rates across the developing world, there are major
concerns about the quality of education that children receive. Across numerous developing …

We study the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test
scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A …