Background School-based sexual health education has the potential to provide an inclusive
and comprehensive approach to promoting sexual health among young people. We …

This paper examines the effect of age of marriage on women's schooling outcomes for 36
countries from Sub-Saharan Africa and South West Asia. We employ an instrumental …

This article explores the impact of global policy shifts toward 'national integration'on
schooling for refugee youth in Kenya. Based on interviews and classroom observations in …

Increasing evidence demonstrates negative psychological, health, and developmental
outcomes for children associated with parental HIV/AIDS illness and death. However, little is …

Education holds a prominent place in the architecture of the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). MDG 2 focuses on achieving universal primary education in a formal setting, and …

Globally, gender differences are reported in the early acquisition of reading and
mathematics as girls tend to outperform boys in reading, whereas boys tend to outperform …

This paper examines the relative strength of different factors associated with school drop out
using data collected between 2007 and 2009 in Bangladesh. A sample of 9046 children …

As primary school enrolment rates in Rwanda near ubiquity, completion rates remain low
and repetition rates remain high. This study investigates the impact of the 'hidden costs' of …

Abstract Since 1990 and the World Conference on Education for All well over half a trillion
dollars has been disbursed as aid to education with much of it targeted on low income …

Influential reports about the “learning crisis” in the global South generally pay insufficient
attention to social inequalities in learning. In this study, we explore the association between …