matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation …. Second, the paper presents the results of three types of value-added regressions, a (standard) level specification, a school … 0.50) student-level standard deviations by the time students complete the six-year primary school cycle …

attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries …

School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …

This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school … preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison … experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved …

Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …

This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the … Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and per-pupil teacher salary, became …

benefiting from investments in pre-school education and in school infrastructure that are disproportionately higher when compared …

score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors … assess the magnitude of the indigenous and non-indigenous test score gap and identify the main family and school inputs … by family and school characteristics is between 41 and 75 percent of the overall test-score gap. Furthermore, family …

up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports …'s readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … the school readiness literacy domains and overall score by 0.19 and 0.2 standard deviation, respectively, for girls and …