Health & Education
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Can minimum-age-of-marriage laws eradicate child marriage? Evidence from Mexico
Increasing the minimum age of marriage to 18 years old in Mexico reduced formal marriage but did not prevent school dropout or early motherhood
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Is virtual coaching of teachers less effective than in-person coaching? Evidence from South Africa
Face-to-face interactions between teachers and their coaches might yield better results in teacher training than more high-tech, virtual approaches
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Promoting parental involvement in schools: Evidence from Mexico
Group-based interventions can increase parental engagement in school, change parents’ behaviour at home and improve children’s behaviour in school
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Failure of frequent assessment: Evidence from India’s continuous and comprehensive evaluation programme
More frequent assessment of student performance fails to deliver on improved outcomes when the administrative burden on teachers is high
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Assessing the market forces behind effective education: Evidence from Pakistan
In low-income countries, students’ economic background can determine how well their learning needs are matched with their schools’ instructional level
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The impact of criminalising sex work in Indonesia
Criminalising sex work in Indonesia led to large increases in sexually transmitted infections among sex workers and likely across the whole population
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Incentivising behavioural change: The role of time preferences
Bundling payment incentives over time is more effective in increasing effort among the impatient, relative to increasing payment frequency
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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
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How soccer and goals make better relationships
Lessons on gender parity and staying healthy reduced intimate partner violence and led goal-minded girls to choose age-appropriate and ‘better’ boys