About 80% of the world's children live in developing countries. Their well-being as adults
depends heavily on the education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased …

In developing countries, rising incomes, increased demand for more skilled labor, and
government investments of considerable resources on building and equipping schools and …

* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use
money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts* Team authored by …

Teachers differ greatly in how much they teach their students, but little is known about which
teacher attributes account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject …

This article discusses the experience of six conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin
America, a model of social safety‐nets which has grown to dominate the social protection …

How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and
adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of …

" Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world
go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading …

In this paper we examine how policymakers and practitioners should interpret the impact
evaluation literature when presented with conflicting experimental and non-experimental …

Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role
in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well …

As necessary as reading is to the success of a child--and entire nations--many low-income
countries overlook the fundamental duty of their school systems to produce readers …