, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia … and Ecuador and match it to survey data. Using machine learning methods, we select the quality determinants that predict …

This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up … original program. An analysis of it facilitates investigation of the skills generated by Jamaica Reach Up and Learn. We find …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …

study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention …

differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and … Bolivia are presented to confront usual presumptions against actual experience. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the … successful cases (Korea and Brazil) turn out to be ones in which the government exercised discretion and selectivity, while the …

evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises …