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 …

, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes. In 2006, the national program was … the applicants. An intent-to-treat approach did not detect any impact on learning outcomes; a formal school …-based management intervention plus a monetary grant was not enough to improve learning outcomes. First, the schools in the evaluation …

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 … percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World …

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 …

.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …