, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development … vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …

-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine …Access to school has risen dramatically in recent decades, with large gains from reducing costs. Few studies report … who would receive a school uniform. Receiving a uniform reduced school absenteeism by 37 percent for the average student …

The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to …