Education

Ngäbe community teacher implements the audio program

Boosting academic success and cultural identity among Indigenous students in Panama

Indigenous students worldwide face significant educational barriers. In Panama, the Ngäbe-Buglé students score among the lowest on national assessments. The JADENKÄ programme, an innovative intercultural bilingual initiative, was launched to address ...

Education

Emma Näslund-Hadley Juan Hernández-Agramonte

Published

03.03.25

mother and child, depicting child-rearing

The challenges of improving parenting practices at scale

Home visitation and group meeting parenting programmes have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but are too expensive to be delivered at large scale. Evidence from India shows that a programme using automated phone calls w...

Education

Irma Arteaga Andreas de Barros Alejandro J. Ganimian

Published

25.03.25

Subsidising secondary education has huge benefits, for this generation and the next

As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa debate the costs and benefits of subsidising secondary education, a 15-year RCT in Ghana finds large multi-generation impacts.

Education

Esther Duflo Pascaline Dupas Michael Kremer Elizabeth Spelke Mark Walsh

Published

17.02.25

umbrella protecting family, reflecting focus of this article on protecting girls

Safe spaces for teenage girls in a time of crisis

An empowerment programme in Sierra Leone that supported girls through a simple life skills and livelihood training buffered adolescent girls from the adverse effects of the Ebola crisis.

Education

Oriana Bandiera Niklas Buehren Markus Goldstein Imran Rasul Andrea Smurra

Published

21.01.25

Behavioural strategies to reduce teacher sorting in Peru

Low-income students are more likely to attend schools with less-qualified teachers widening achievement gaps. The Peruvian government’s novel and low-cost nationwide strategy was successful at encouraging highly qualified teachers to apply for jobs i...

Education

Nicolas Ajzenman Eleonora Bertoni Gregory Elacqua Luana Marotta Carolina Méndez

Published

18.12.24

The overlooked role of sleep in children's education in India

Later sunsets reduce children's sleep, harming their learning and long-term education outcomes in India.

Education

Maulik Jagnani

Published

11.12.24

How a teacher hiring reform in Colombia backfired

A merit-based teacher hiring reform succeeded in recruiting teachers with better qualifications, but the replacement of more experienced teachers led to a decline in student outcomes.

Education

Matias Busso Sebastian Montaño Juan Muñoz-Morales Nolan Pope

Published

03.12.24

Unintended consequences of conditional cash transfers on educational outcomes

New evidence from Morocco reveals that conditional cash transfers can constrain learning when no accompanying measures are taken by governments to account for increased enrolment.

Education

Jules Gazeaud Claire Ricard

Published

05.11.24

Gender stereotypes in the classroom affect gender inequality later in life

Stereotyped assessments by teachers exacerbate gender disparities in educational outcomes for high school students in Peru. New evidence shows that these negative impacts persist years later in labour market gender gaps.

Education

Joan J. Martínez

Published

29.10.24