Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls outperform boys on learning-a positive gender gap-in contrast to a negative gender …

This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children … led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a … impacts of child labor on learning …

COVID-19-related school closures are pushing countries off track from achieving their learning goals. This paper builds … on the concept of learning poverty and draws on axiomatic properties from social choice literature to propose and … motivate a distribution-sensitive measures of learning poverty. Numerical, empirical, and practical reasons for the relevance …

heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best … simply distributed to a randomly selected sample of shop owners and complemented with three experiential learning modules … coupled with experiential learning. On business performance, the study finds sizable and significant improvements as well, up …

economy to a market oriented one. Because of uncertainties and country specificity, development must be a process of learning … learning by doing. It is moving from a comparative advantage-defying strategy to a comparative advantage-following strategy … to tackle them now than it was 30 years ago. This paper reviews the drivers behind China's learning and trade integration …