reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all … children and increases test scores by 0.51 standard deviations (1.2 standard deviations for children that enroll in school …

increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school … after the end of the program and outside of school, although at lower rates. The program also increased students' scores on …