skills: reading, numeracy, essay writing and Swiss history. We develop an estimation strategy to examine whether the impact … of religious denomination was particularly large with respect to reading capabilities. We find support for this … hypothesis. However, Protestants' education motives went beyond acquiring reading skills. …

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …

skills: reading, numeracy, essay writing and Swiss history. We develop an estimation strategy to examine whether the impact … of religious denomination was particularly large with respect to reading capabilities. We find support for this … hypothesis. However, Protestants' education motives went beyond reading the bible. …

hierarchical model of academic skills is proposed, which contains three types of skills: academic reading skills, academic writing …

The authors estimate contribution of different factors in reading skills of 15?year-olds by using four models of … reading skills). At the school level the aggregated family characteristics of students affect individual achievements, and … significant contribution to achievement. Attitudes toward reading and learning are significant at the individual level, but at the …