Health & Education
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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
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The economics of child marriage
Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage
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Negotiating a better future: Experimental evidence from Zambia
Can we increase girls’ educational outcomes through endowing them with negotiation skills?
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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