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 …

-teacher data used to estimate value-added models of teacher quality. We show that the common assumption that the return to … unobserved teacher quality is the same for all students is rejected by the data. We also present evidence that No Child Left … Behind-era school accountability increased the effectiveness of teacher quality for lower performing students …

evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals attracted higher-quality …