The author uses a Young Lives dataset, collected between 2002 and 2009, to investigate a series of questions relating to learning assessments in education, the age at which development gaps appear between countries, and how these gaps and differences can

This paper uses unique panel data to estimate value-added models of learning production in private and government schools in Andhra Pradesh (India), examine heterogeneity in the value-added of private schools, and identify the sources of learning in these

This review essay summarises current research into child development that investigates what promotes and what threatens children’s growth and security. It examines how the well-being of children affects and is affected by wider societal (especially econom