worryingly high. More than five million youths have failed to complete a basic education. Alternative Learning System (ALS) is a … analyzes (a) the target populations, (b) current beneficiaries, (c) delivery modes (with a focus on learning facilitators …

at scale to provide online learning when all or many schools are closed. Related 'good practices' are considered rare …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

Before the outbreak of the global novel coronavirus pandemic, the world was already dealing with a learning crisis, as … evidenced by high levels of Learning Poverty. With the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), among many disruptions to …. Extended school closures may cause not only loss of learning in the short-term, but also further loss in human capital and …

Is TV-based learning during COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh reaching students? Most students (86 percent) within … our sample of more than 2,000 Grade 9 stipend recipients are aware of government provided TV-based learning programs; yet … access to government provided online learning programs, and among those that do, only about 2 percent choose to access them …

This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool against gambling and lottery behavior in South Africa. The …

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 …