Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing
commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for …

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of
the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic
impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. Our …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on
the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps …

Importance Children living in poverty generally perform poorly in school, with markedly
lower standardized test scores and lower educational attainment. The longer children live in …

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and
noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

For several decades, myths about the brain—neuromyths—have persisted in schools and
colleges, often being used to justify ineffective approaches to teaching. Many of these myths …