Education

Midday meals in India improve children’s learning outcomes

Prolonged exposure to ‘midday meals’ can improve learning outcomes on top of its other objectives...

Education

Tanika Chakraborty Rajshri Jayaraman

Published

27.09.22

The multidimensionality of school choice: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Schools that improve academic outcomes are not those that improve non-academic ones. Academic and non-academic factors affect parental school choice...

Education

Diether W. Beuermann Kirabo Jackson Laia Navarro-Sola Francisco Pardo

Published

08.08.22

Some children left behind: When mean impacts and individual impacts differ

Even interventions with large average benefits do not help everyone, which is a serious challenge for education policy in developing countries...

Education

Julie Buhl-Wiggers Jason Kerwin Juan Munoz-Morales Jeffrey Smith Rebecca Thornton

Published

24.06.22

Scholarships increase social mobility: Evidence from Colombia

Needs-based and merit-based scholarships improve the motivation and social mobility of low-income students...

Education

Rachid Laajaj Andrés Moya Fabio Sánchez

Published

20.06.22

Transmitting gender attitudes in school: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Progressive gender norms can be transmitted from teachers to students and improve classroom achievement through better cooperation among the sexes...

Education

Sultan Mehmood Shaheen Naseer Daniel Li Chen

Published

20.05.22

The impact of Mexico’s Progresa programme twenty years on

The ground-breaking conditional cash transfer programme shows long-term benefits to education, income, geographic mobility and family formation...

Education

M. Caridad Araujo Karen Macours

Published

04.05.22

How skills training can boost entrepreneurship and job creation: Evidence from Uganda

A mini-MBA programme for high-school students led to significant gains in profits, business capital investments, new businesses, and job creation...

Education

Laura Chioda David Contreras-Loya Paul Gertler Dana Carney

Published

13.04.22

Building social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools: An intervention in Turkey

An intervention to develop perspective-taking reduced peer violence, boosted reciprocity, altruism and trust, and encouraged inter-ethnic friendships...

Education

Sule Alan Ceren Baysan Mert Gumren Elif Kubilay

Published

23.03.22

Non-monetary teacher incentives and student learning in Guinea

Public recognition rewards for well-performing public-sector teachers are less effective than in-kind rewards at improving student learning...

Education

Jacobus Cilliers Felipe Barrera-Osorio Marie-Helene Cloutier Deon Filmer

Published

14.03.22