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This dissertation consists of three essays which examine household decisions regarding education in a developing country. The theme underlying each of the three essays is the importance of school quality. The first essay uses a data set from Honduras to study the determinants of…

The education of boys in the Middle East has received very little attention despite falling retention and achievement rates and rising repetition rates among males. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this trend is very clear; boys have higher dropout rates, higher repetition rat…