training
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Training Entrepreneurs: Issue 3
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Preschool quality and child development: Evidence from Colombia
Interventions that only provide material resources to preschools may fail to achieve any benefits, and have unintended negative consequences, if teachers have insufficient training
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Improving police responsiveness to gender-based violence: Evidence from India
Gender-targeted police services, coupled with training, improve the responsiveness of police to gender-based violence
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Information works: The impact of training on the adoption of environmental technologies by farmers
A simple training increased adoption of an agricultural technology by over 90%, with persistent improvements in agricultural production and land use
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Specialised hiring and entrepreneurial success: Evidence from Nigeria
Subsidising entrepreneurs to hire a marketing or accounting specialist can be more effective than trying to train the entrepreneur in these skills
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Training effective altruism: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
An experiment in Pakistan finds that training decision makers in the benefits of empathy cultivates prosocial behaviour in the lab and the field
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What works in training entrepreneurs?
The first VoxDevLit highlights the role of research in generating innovation in approaches to training entrepreneurs
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Solving sub-Saharan Africa’s demographic challenge: Matching firms and workers
Evidence from Uganda shows both vocational training and within-firm training help workers find better-paid jobs, but with crucial differences
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Evidence to practice: Reforming private healthcare in India
Using the example of healthcare in India, Nick O’Donohoe discusses how data plays a crucial role in making sure investments are put to their best use