A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …

Using data from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children (LSAC), this is the first analysis for Australia to … children's cognitive outcomes. While one year of learning in Year 3 is represented by about 50 NAPLAN points, we find average … attained by children whose pre-school teachers had Diploma or Degree level (high) qualifications, identifying for the first …

early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are … children having their birthday before, during and after the summer holiday are placed in the same class. These features … generate sufficient exogenous variation in children's maximum length of schooling to identify its effects on test scores …

This paper measures impacts of removing children from families investigated for abuse or neglect. We use removal … tendencies of child protection investigators as an instrument. We focus on young children investigated before age six and find …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are …

skills for children living in disadvantaged areas. These findings suggest that sizeable class size reductions targeted at …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …

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 …