This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing ….30–1.40 standard deviations), but also as the country with the highest persistence in cognitive development, as shown by the value …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … years old in Chile in 2012 and Nicaragua in 2013. A focus on young children allowed for ruling out a set of environmental …

This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin …

This study documents the size and nature of Hindu-Muslim and boy-girl gaps in children's school participation and … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …