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 …

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

We show that a short-term (31 day) reading program, designed to provide age-appropriate reading material, to train … teachers in their use, and to support teachers' initial efforts for about a month improves students' reading skills by 0 …, probably due to a reduced emphasis on reading after the program. We find that the program also encourages students to read more …

created a nontrivial discontinuity in the propensity of kindergarten school attendance among different cohorts of children … achievement using a large-scale natural experiment in the Philippines. In 2012, the Philippine government mandated compulsory … kindergarten attendance for children aged five years or older prior to enrolling in the country's basic education cycle. This …

Children around the world largely rely on the formal educational system to teach them foundational mathematics and … reading skills. The inability of an educational system to do so may indicate it has structural constraints. In this paper, we … implemented by the Philippine Statistics Authority to examine mastery of foundational mathematics and reading skills among …

"Among developing member countries (DMCs), Indonesia and the Philippines rank fairly high in the distribution of real … GDP per capita in PPP dollars while Bangladesh ranks much lower. In terms of aggregate schooling, the Philippines has …, than that predicted based on all DMCs and their respective real products per capita. The Philippines also has expected …