This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent … schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey that tracked students in the Philippines … treatment and control areas before and after a school intervention, show significant differences in subsequent schooling …

Bangladesh. Given implementation challenges the intervention was not able to improve school attendance. However the analysis … shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the … program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health …

factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … reflected in the intake of nutrients such as protein, calcium, and iron for children's physical growth. Vitamins A and C are … important for reducing morbidity. Children's growth and morbidity affect their cognitive development, which is critical for the …

school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … complete their primary education lacking even basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills?the so-called "learning crisis …

students'school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and ….7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard … gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the …

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

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the … universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's learners: 1.5 billion children and young people. The closures are … increased earnings. What is not known is how much earnings will decline due to the school closures. Starting with the fact that …

's readiness for school. Among children of mothers without high school education, being in a treatment community positively affects … reading scores by approximately 0.18 standard deviation per year of exposure. Two cohorts of children were potentially exposed … intervention is found to have positive effects on early grade reading scores only among children in the reading intervention …

who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … enrollment of "marginal children" who are initially less likely to go to school, such as girls, younger children, and lower … or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in …