This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

percent for those exposed at school-going ages. Educational gains are much more limited for indigenous children, though grades …

-used language training program and a rich set of conditioning variables. Taking information on mathematical skills into account … effects of participating in a language training program at the kindergarten on grammar skills range between 11% and 17% of a …

Early childhood education in Kenya is a standalone level from the mainstream 8.4.4 system of education. The government …

mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. At the end of the first year of the program, children …

only for children around the median of the attendance rate baseline distribution (between deciles 4 and 6). The … intervention was ineffective for children with very high or very low pre-treatment absenteeism levels. Our results, although … encouraging, emphasize the limits of these types of interventions, especially for children in families where barriers to reduce …