knowledge by a quarter of a standard deviation and led to a 1.4 percentage point increase in saving for purchases, better … parents were also significant, with improvements in parent financial knowledge, savings, and spending behavior. The study also …

matter knowledge of primary school teachers in Indonesia is low on average and that a 1.0, but also a 2.0 standard deviation … increase in teachers' subject matter knowledge seem to be achievable medium-term goals for education policy making in Indonesia … deviation increase in teachers' subject matter knowledge across-the-board can yield increases in student achievement by 0 …

), (hereafter TMSDG), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases … is 0.148 kg (95 percent CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full sample is 0 …

childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop … time, using several surveys conducted between 2003 and 2012. Large disparities exist in children's chances of healthy early …

centers and complemented these efforts with a group-based parenting support program. Children in the integrated intervention …-emotional development than children in centers receiving teacher training alone at the 18-month follow-up. However, the study finds no …

parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from … older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …

million children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child …' behavior in Kenya. For households with children aged three to seven, they model household demand for mothers' participation in …' wages affect older children's school enrollment, but these factors affect boys' and girls' schooling differently. An …

-contaminated drinking water-has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of … arsenicosis at school and at home on cognitive achievement of children in rural Bangladesh using recent nationally representative …

knowledge shifts loan portfolios toward formal sources relative to informal ones. Connections to the Communist Party are … residents, suggesting perhaps that financial knowledge coincides with greater demand for credit in areas with more economic … financial knowledge, and those with larger family sizes relying much more on informal finance, while others are better able to …

) participant classroom motivation with pay for performance on a knowledge test, (ii) intensity of treatment with personalized … important complements to financial education that can bridge the gap between financial knowledge and financial behavior change …