Learning opportunities for children in Sudan have been repeatedly interrupted over the years by armed conflicts, flooding, weak institutions, and decades of international isolation and political instability...
Sudan’s education sector faces new opportunities and immense challenges as the country seeks to move toward a new era of democracy and economic development. The change of government occurred in 2019 largely...
This study consists of six sections. Following this introduction, section 2 provides an overview of the structure of the education system and education sector context, highlighting the differences in the...
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent;...
A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes...
In 2009, the Mexican state of Colima implemented a low-stakes accountability intervention with diagnostic feedback among 108 public primary schools with the lowest test scores in the national student assessment...
Mexico's more than 10 million indigenous peoples constitute about 11 percent of the country's population. While accounting for a smaller percentage of the country's total population than in some other...
The Oaxaca-Blinder technique was originally used in labor economics to decompose earnings gaps and to estimate the level of discrimination. It has been applied since in other social issues, including education...
This paper uses the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment student-level achievement database for Mexico to estimate state education production functions, controlling for student characteristics...