Pay for performance can improve student learning without negative impacts on the type of teacher that gets recruited or retained

Integrated school-based interventions to advance gender equality can achieve lasting changes in regressive attitudes and behaviours

Shrinking school–parent information gaps through text messaging can be an effective way to improve grades and attendance outcomes for schoolchildren

Policies based on physicians' geographic preferences, such as quotas and university expansion, are more cost-effective than financial incentives

A work-study programme increased both youth work experience and education enrolment and had a positive effect on earnings

While unsafe street food affects the health of millions of people, information alone may not be enough to change vendors’ food safety practices

Need-based assistance appears to improve academic and longer-term labour market outcomes for college students in Jamaica

Telenovelas in Brazil helped reduce fertility rates, while an MTV drama increased knowledge about HIV in Nigeria and encouraged safer sexual practices

Calling teachers and students once a week almost doubled the impact on reading and maths test scores of an adult education programme in Niger