We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on …

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … 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 …

deviations. The change in test scores for those children caused to attend school by the program is 2.2 standard deviations. We … enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20 percentage points and increased their test scores by 0.45 standard … school access from the unique characteristics of the new schools, we find that the unique characteristics were responsible …

the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school by the early 20th century. We … present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents …

instruction policy in former colonies as well as U.S. education policy toward immigrant children. …

transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this … federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8 percentage points, the program's impact was 36 percent larger in …

cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive …