learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher … students, but the relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control …

significantly improved teacher satisfaction with their income, reduced the incidence of teachers holding outside jobs, and reduced … those of a model where effort on pro-social tasks is a normal good with a positive income elasticity, we find that large …

We use a panel survey of ~19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study 'learning loss' after COVID …-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months … language compared to identically-aged students in the same villages in 2019. Two-thirds of this deficit was made up within 6 …

relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …