training

Employers under-invest in training their employees in general skills. Evidence from rural Burundi shows that while there are large returns to providing training, these are not captured by the employer who invested in it due to short contract durations.

Interventions that only provide material resources to preschools may fail to achieve any benefits, and have unintended negative consequences, if teachers have insufficient training

Gender-targeted police services, coupled with training, improve the responsiveness of police to gender-based violence

A simple training increased adoption of an agricultural technology by over 90%, with persistent improvements in agricultural production and land use

Subsidising entrepreneurs to hire a marketing or accounting specialist can be more effective than trying to train the entrepreneur in these skills

An experiment in Pakistan finds that training decision makers in the benefits of empathy cultivates prosocial behaviour in the lab and the field

The first VoxDevLit highlights the role of research in generating innovation in approaches to training entrepreneurs

Evidence from Uganda shows both vocational training and within-firm training help workers find better-paid jobs, but with crucial differences