Play during early childhood is key to stimulating children's physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development …. However, research on play-based learning is largely limited to high-income countries, and little is known about the use of … the development of emotional and cognitive skills in children. The study also found a significant effect of 0.19 SD on the …

-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ … improved the students' mathematical and ethnomathematical skills. The magnitude of the impact on mathematics, of 0 ….12-0.18 standard deviations (s.d.), is comparable to preschool programs that teach intercultural bilingual classes in low- and middle-income …

Tailoring instruction to each student’s needs can produce significant learning gains. However, few programs have … program improves overall Mathematics outcomes, and that it has stronger impact on students in the lower quintiles of the … Mathematics outcomes distribution and on students whose teachers have university degrees. The effect on the content areas where …

This paper studies whether school-based financial education has spillover effects from children to parents. Leveraging … data from a large-scale experiment with public high schools in Peru and credit bureau records on the parents of the youth … effects on parental financial behavior within disadvantaged households. Among parents from poorer households, the treatment …

impact of the COVID pandemic on the mental health of school-age children in England. We focus on how the significant pandemic … induced disruptions to parental employment affected children and through what mechanisms, using unique nationally … significant and negative impact on children’s mental health of around 9% of a standard deviation equivalent to around 30% of the …

of ten caregivers of children aged 2-6 years. In the impact evaluation, the primary outcome was caregivers' use of …

of school-aged children in highly violent middle-income settings. …Family violence is a critical development challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), carrying high health … programs have improved parenting practices in high-income countries. However, evidence for LMICs is sparse. This study …