A Brighter Future: The Impact of Rural School Electrification Programs on the Dropout Rate in Primary Education in Brazil

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Are disadvantaged schools slow to adopt school-based management reforms? Evidence from India

“…The provision of basic minimum levels of school infrastructure has been shown to be conducive to improving student enrollment (Dostie and Jayaraman 2006;Cuesta, Glewwe, and Krause 2016), reducing dropout (Mejdalani et al 2018), and improving learning outcomes (Glewwe et al 2011). OECD (2016) concluded that the presence of adequate material resources in a school, including school infrastructure, is a necessary (although not sufficient) condition for high academic achievement.…”