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 …

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

finds that the global level of schooling and learning will fall. COVID-19 could result in a loss of between 0.3 and 0 … adversely affected by the school closures. Globally, a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a … the goal of halving the percentage of learning poor and be unable to meet the goal by 2030 unless drastic remedial action …

This paper studies the impact of a computer-assisted learning program on learning outcomes among high school students …