leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …

education and earnings. Children ages 2 to 6 in 1974 received 0.12 to 0.19 more years of education for each school constructed … per 1,000 children in their region of birth. Using the variations in schooling generated by this policy as instrumental …

and numeracy skills to children lagging behind in government schools. We find the program to be very effective: it … increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.14 standard deviations in the first year, and 0.28 in … grade with two hours of shared computer time per week, in which students played educational games that reinforced …