children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood …

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …

learning were concentrated among initially better-performing schools and students. At the same time, learning outcomes may have … decreased for schools and students that were lower performing at baseline. Finally, the study finds that incentivizing students …

Improving education outcomes by disseminating information to parents and thereby encouraging them to become more … alternative approaches to disseminating information about a school grants program in Indonesia on parents' knowledge about the … stakeholders or sending targeted text messages to parents did increase knowledge and participation. Facilitated meetings mostly …

school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … teacher effort, knowledge, and skills. Averaging across countries, the paper finds that students receive two hours and fifty …

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …

research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly …