between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An … increase of one school per 100 females reduces a cohort's teenage birthrate by between 0.250 and 0.563 births per 100, or a …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development …In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before … vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …