We study the effects of preschool attendance on children's school progression and cognitive skills in Kenya and … Tanzania. Our analysis uses novel data from large-scale household surveys of children's literacy and numeracy skills, which …-specific covariates. In both countries, children who go to preschool tend to enroll in primary school late, and thus fall behind in terms …

' to advice parents and school boards on school starting age. In the early reform period, children born close to the … children in each cohort, and no long-term benefits. …

This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools … is measured by the school's average achievement test score at age 12. Our results indicate that children in high …

psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with … dimensions: These children are more persistent and less often hyperactive. The findings are robust if we control for the … comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany’s segregated secondary-school tracks …

skills for children living in disadvantaged areas. These findings suggest that sizeable class size reductions targeted at …

during elementary school, but only among the low SES children. Consequently, the high PGS children experience the largest … to selection into different environments, the high PGS children are simply better at extracting resources from a given …