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Nudging teachers to underserved schools at zero cost
A zero-cost nudge – simply listing hard-to-staff schools first in an online vacancy platform – significantly increased the share of teachers applying to and being placed in under-resourced schools. The effect appears to be driven by choice overload r...
Reminders to parents can improve student outcomes
A large field experiment in Brazil finds that simply reminding parents to pay attention to school improves student outcomes about the same as sending them detailed, child-specific information – suggesting that informational interventions work largely...
How impacts of violence spread through Mexican schools
In Mexico, children in safe areas suffer lasting academic harm when peers who fled local violence transfer to their schools – even though they were never directly exposed to that violence themselves. This hidden cost of violence is especially pronoun...
