increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly …

increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly …

Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We … provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in … reform reduced the school starting age from seven to six, the second changed the first-year curriculum from a play …

educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …