Measuring the impact of a home visiting programme on child skills A home visiting programme substantially improves the language, cognitive, fine motor and socioemotional skills of left-behind children in rural China Education James Heckman Bei Liu Mai Lu Jin Zhou Published 28.09.20
The impact of school-based life skills classes for adolescent girls in India School-based life skills classes can change attitudes, strengthen social connections, and help girls assert more control over their lives while staying in school Education Eric Edmonds Ben Feigenberg Jessica Leight Published 31.08.20
Returns to work, child labour, and schooling: The income versus price effects Returns to child work play an important role in determining child labour and schooling through changing the opportunity costs of schooling Education Jie Bai Yukun Wang Published 21.08.20
Does vocational educational training work? Experimental evidence from Mongolia Can investments in vocational training, contrary to the existing research literature, actually improve labour market outcomes? Education Ofer Malamud Erica Field Leigh Linden Daniel Rubenson Shing-Yi Wang Published 08.07.20
Education creates peace: Evidence from school-building in Indonesia New research shows how a school-building programme in Indonesia successfully reduced conflict Education Dominic Rohner Published 11.03.20
India’s National Education Policy: A need to look beyond the classroom to improve results India should consider how government policies have both intended and unintended consequences for education, as they impact incentives to attend school Education Anjali Adukia Published 15.11.19
Changing beliefs about education: Evidence from rural India Beyond simply telling them or showing evidence, how can we make children in developing countries believe that education has value? Education Guo Xu Published 06.11.19
Empowering adolescent girls in Sierra Leone under the Ebola crisis In the midst of the Ebola crisis an empowerment programme acts as a shield for adolescent girls Education Oriana Bandiera Niklas Buehren Markus Goldstein Imran Rasul Andrea Smurra Published 06.09.19
Assessing the impacts of financial aid for low-income students Merit-based financial aid for low-income students doubles immediate postsecondary enrollment, making elite universities substantially more diverse Education Juliana Londoño-Vélez Catherine Rodríguez Fabio Sánchez Published 23.08.19
