Recent work by Mauricio Romero
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Improving foundational learning in Tanzania through teacher rewards
A programme rewarding teachers for increasing their students’ foundational skills improved learning in public primary schools in Tanzania. A cheap and easy to communicate version of the programme was most (cost-)effective, and is currently being scaled up in the worst performing schools in Tanzania
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Do Indian private school quotas meet their redistributive potential?
Redistributive policies may exclude the poor because they can’t apply, and fixing this requires alleviating multiple constraints
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Getting bang for your buck on education spending: Evidence from Tanzania
Interventions aimed at alleviating multiple constraints are often needed to achieve the desired impact