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 …

-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

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 …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

rolled out nationwide and provides additional resources for materials and new staff, did not benefit children’s development …, improved the quality of teaching and raised children’s cognition, language and school readiness. …