PURPOSE: To study the effect of free glasses combined with teacher incentives on in-school glasses wear among Chinese urban migrant children.DESIGN: Cluster-randomized controlled trial.METHODS: Children with visual acuity (VA) £6/12 in either eye owing to refractive error in 94 randomly chosen...

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age to estimate the effects of maternal migration on...

We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...