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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement: Evidence from IndiaI study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian state of Rajasthan...
Children Education EnrolmentWorking Paper
Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children: Lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte d’IvoireWe analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses—elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d’Ivoire—on the educational progression of b...
Risk attitudes Female bargaining power EducationWorking Paper
Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities: Evidence from IndiaI evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6–14 years, including children with disabilities...
People with disabilities Children EducationWorking Paper
Elementary education in India versus China: Guidelines for NEP implementationThis paper documents the state of elementary education in India and China since the 1960s, key lessons for India from China’s shift in focus from ‘quantity’ to ‘quality’, and evidence-based guidelines for effective imple...
Education Schooling Education qualityJournal Article
Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto ProgramPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersJournal Article
Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
Inequality Ethnicity SchoolingWorking Paper
Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito PintoIn 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour...
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship and human capital development in childrenThis paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes...
Non-farm Enterprises Child labourWorking Paper
Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in GuatemalaWith the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics...
Inequality Ethnicity Schooling