In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of...
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Equivalent Years of Schooling : A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms
Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent...
Public Investment Management (PIM) in Contexts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence – Part 1
A government's provision of complementary public goods, such as roads and bridges, facilitates the development of markets leading to long-term economic growth. Private enterprise, by itself, is...
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Can Incentives to Take Home Textbooks Increase Learning?
The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an evaluation that measured the effectiveness of both financial and non-financial incentives at the student,...
Early childhood development in Qatar : status and opportunities for the future
Early childhood development (ECD) is a multidimensional process that takes place from conception until age five. These years mark the most important period for an individual's development. In this...
Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)
This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes...
A primer on human capital
This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable achievement outcomes...
What explains the gender gap reversal in education ? the role of the tail hypothesis
The gender gap reversal in educational attainment is ubiquitous in high-income countries, as well as in a growing share of low- and middle-income countries. To account for the reversal, this paper...
How effective are early grade reading interventions ? a review of the evidence
It is imperative that students learn to read in the early grades, yet many fail to do so in developing countries. Early grade reading interventions have emerged as a common means to attempt to...
Improving education sector performance in Malaysia : lessons from a delivery unit approach
This report is part of the World Bank’s Malaysia development experience series that strives to document the country’s approach to improving public sector performance. The report builds on the...
