early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … preschools received extra training of the preschool teachers, whereas control preschools did not receive any training. The …

attained by children whose pre-school teachers had Diploma or Degree level (high) qualifications, identifying for the first … evaluate the impact of attendance at pre-school programs on matched Year 3 nation-wide NAPLAN test outcomes in the domains of … pre-school domain effects as much as 10-15 points, mainly driven by the upper quantiles of the NAPLAN distribution. To …

Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment remains … a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached to school, yet classroom diversity poses … of primary and secondary school teachers in Turkey - is effective in reducing absenteeism of refugee students. We find …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean … administrative records with a regression discontinuity design. Our results show higher in-school performance and college entrance …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …

Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the … literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many … underlying causes of the native-refugee differences in school enrollment. We also analyze employment and marriage outcomes, as …

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize … inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is crucial for a society to know how the public education system can … on the effects of some important aspects of education policies. It comprises an introduction and four core chapters which …

Mathematics outcomes distribution and on students whose teachers have university degrees. The effect on the content areas where …

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 … effect persisted even after the program ended with an effect of 0.06 standard deviations three months later. -- education …

The paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting … we estimate the causal short-term effect of JU enrollment and show that attending JU significantly leads to higher school … readiness, i.e. higher cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. Although the effect of attending JU on school readiness is quite …