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Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading, Reading Programs, Reading Improvement