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 …

We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income … more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …

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 agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …

-organizing instruction based on children's actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be … of this process, two versions of the programs were developed that successfully raised children's learning levels using …

Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over … Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach … students enrolled in these schools at baseline. These two models provide blueprints that can be replicated inside other …