83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …

-income countries, these gaps decrease dramatically in a multivariate regression once differences between children in the same school … private schools, for instance, is 12 times the gap between children from rich and poor families. To contextualize these … times the gap between children with literate and illiterate mothers …

comparability, the paper uses the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. It finds important differences … countries where panel data to follow children over time exists, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9 year old children. Using detailed … the sequence of services children enroll in, but also the age at which they enroll and the duration for which they enroll … completes a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age are 0.42 standard deviations in language and 0.43 standard …

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

catered to children from different wealth backgrounds than those that remained open. These results point to actionable lessons …