Child education

A large-scale conditional cash transfer programme in Chile increased earnings, reduced ethnic inequality, and improved children’s learning outcomes across two generations.

Eradicating malaria could deliver much larger economic gains in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed. The new generation of malaria vaccines provides a highly cost-effective way to realise these benefits.

Millions of children in low- and middle-income countries attend school without learning to read, with ineffective teaching methods driving a global learning crisis. New global evidence demonstrates that structured, low-cost, and evidence-based reading instruction can transform literacy outcomes and unlock long-term economic growth.

Parental job loss has significant negative effects on children, which can be partly mitigated by access to unemployment insurance