We study the impact on cognitive and non-cognitive skills of exposure high achievers, using a unique experiment from Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade between Kindergarten and 6th grade. …
This paper explores the impact of exposure to violence during the first nine years of life on risky health behaviors and socioemotional skills as a teenager. In Colombia, over 2 million children have experienced violence, but the medium-term …
In this document we analyze the impacts of a large-scale intervention that provided access to daycare centers for children in low-income neighborhoods in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Our results suggest that the intervention had a positive impact on …