Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in
the world's largest public early-childhood program: India's Integrated Child Development …

Executive functions (EFs) in early childhood are predictors of later developmental outcomes
and school readiness. Much of the research on EFs and their psychosocial correlates has …

Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-
income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly …

Studies in high-income countries have shown preprimary education provided to children
between the ages of 3 and 6 has high returns both in small-scale interventions like the Perry …

We examine the impact of enrolling in schools that employ a highly-standardized approach
to education, using random variation from a large nationwide scholarship program. Bridge …

By the time children start primary school, large socioeconomic disparities are evident in their
learning and development. Both pre-primary and home environments can play important …

This paper investigates the short-and medium-term impact of a randomized group-based
early child development program targeting parents of children aged 6–24 months in a poor …

Over the past two decades, in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) have rapidly
expanded access to schooling by building new schools and making education more …

There is a scarcity of prospective longitudinal research targeted at early postnatal life which
maps developmental pathways of earlystage processing and brain specialisation in the …