We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly … increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …

teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly … increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …

teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China …. To accompany the policy, boarding facilities have been constructed that allow (mandate) primary school-aged children to … and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the …