analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …

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 …

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a … significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is, however, complete fade-out for children with highly educated parents. Given … positive longrun effects for children with low-educated parents, the treatment reduces child skill gaps across parents …

performance, college enrollment, choice, and persistence. On average, we find that children eligible to start school at a …Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

understand whether different groups, for instance, children from less advantageous socioeconomic backgrounds or girls benefit …-scale Presidential Instruction Primary School construction programme (SD INPRES) rolled out in Indonesia in the 1970s to examine the … effect of increased school supply on schooling attainment: overall, by gender, and by socioeconomic background. It also …