This paper sheds light on the causes of school dropouts, a major challenge facing UPE attainment in public primary schools Uganda. We offer microregional analysis dropout patterns Mpigi district, and show number distinct dropouts that can be differentiated from studies based national data. While Universal Primary Education program covered tuition fees, additional costs for education, such as me...

Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the distribution of this burden. We exploit the Danish draft lottery to estimate the causal effect of...

Increasing widespread use of educational technologies is producing vast amounts of data. Such data can be used to help advance our understanding of student learning and enable more intelligent, interactive, engaging, and effective education. In this paper, we discuss the status and prospects of this new and powerful opportunity for data-driven development and optimization of educational technol...