Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …

A randomized control trial was conducted to study whether providing 10th grade students with information about the … on learning outcomes and self-reported measures of effort. The effects are larger for girls and students from households … with a relatively high income. These findings are consistent with a simple model where time discount determines the …

poor learning we track student achievement across 9 years in basic education. We find that 40 percent of students do not … numbers by 4th grade). The authors also find that schools do not cover the complete Indonesian curriculum. Only few students …, teachers and students to perform well on the high-stakes national exams. The fact that the system can produce learning once …