Public schemes aiming at facilitating small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
young firms' access to external finance are pervasive around the world. While these …

Much of child care research has focused on the effects of the quality of care in early
childhood settings on children's school readiness skills. Although researchers increased the …

Taking advantage of lottery-like features in New York City's high school admissions process,
this study provides rigorous evidence that new small public high schools are narrowing the …

This study leverages naturally occurring lotteries for oversubscribed Boston Public Schools
prekindergarten program sites between 2007 and 2011, for 3,182 children (M= 4.5 years …

Optimal crop emergence is an important trait in crop breeding for genotypic screening and
for achieving potential growth and yield. Emergence is conventionally quantified manually …

For RCTs of education interventions, it is often of interest to estimate associations between
student and mediating teacher practice outcomes, to examine the extent to which the study's …

This article examines the effectiveness of four elementary school math curricula:(a)
Investigations in Number, Data, and Space;(b) Math Expressions;(c) Saxon Math; and (d) …

New data from a rigorous study confirm that New York City's small public high schools,
which have non-selective admissions and serve many disadvantaged students, have …

National achievement data show that elementary school students in the United States,
particularly those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, have weak math skills (National …

The mission of the Peabody Research Institute is to conduct research aimed at improving
the effectiveness of programs for children, youth, and families. Using field research, program …