. This closes one-third of the gap between children with median and bottom quartile family income, and is about 80 percent as … large as model programs such as Perry Preschool. The long-term impact for disadvantaged children is large despite “fadeout …

worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India …'s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Adding a worker doubled net instructional time and led to 0.29 and 0.46 standard … deviation increases in math and language test scores after 18 months for children who remained enrolled in the program. Rates of …

not improve compared to the control group. We attribute this result to the deteriorating physical and learning …We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West … Bengal in 2013 on children's early enrolment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …

not improve compared to the control group. We attribute this result to the deteriorating physical and learning …We evaluate the impact of introducing a pre-primary schooling program in government schools in the Indian state of West … Bengal in 2013 on children’s early enrollment in schools and subsequent test scores. Using double difference, triple …

Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their …