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Sequencing Two Early Childhood Interventions Back-to-Back in India

Orazio Attanasio
Britta Augsburg
Jere Behrman
Monimalika Day
Sally Grantham-McGregor
Prachi Gupta
Pamela Jervis
Prerna Makkar
Costas Meghir
Rashim Pal
Angus Phimister
Marta Rubio-Codina
Nisha Vernekar
Researchers evaluated the impact of immediately following up an early childhood development intervention for one-to-three-year-old children with a second intervention for three-to-six-year-olds. The early and late interventions each increased IQ and school readiness for children, although there was...
Smiling men in a market in the Philippines

Financial Education vs. Access to Finance Among Filipino Migrants

Paolo Abarcar
Rashmi Barua
Dean Yang
International remittances are an important financial tool for many developing countries, and many organizations offer financial products or financial education services to help families manage the remittances they receive. Researchers provided families with financial products and financial education...
Children and teachers engaging the pedagogical activities

Nurturing Curiosity to Enhance Learning in Turkey

Sule Alan
Ipek Mumcu
In Turkey, researchers evaluated the impact of a new pedagogical approach aimed at cultivating primary school students’ curiosity, particularly in science, to improve learning outcomes. Students whose teachers adopted the approach displayed greater curiosity, ability to retain knowledge, and science...
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Biased Beliefs and the Dynamic Role of Information in College Choice in Chile

Claudia Allende
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation in Chile to study the impact of altering high school students’ beliefs about the returns of college degrees on their decisions to invest in college preparation and which program they choose.
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Combining In-School and Out-of-School Programs to Improve Learning in India

Andrea Guariso
Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the combination of an in-school learning program with an out-of-school learning program on primary school math and reading levels. The combination of the two programs led to a significant increase in children's test scores in both...
Students on computers

Helping Students Change their Mindsets in Norway

Eric Bettinger
Sten Ludvigsen
Mari Rege
Ingeborg Foldøy Solli
David Yeager
Researchers evaluated the impact of a low-cost computer-based intervention providing information about the brain’s potential to change and grow on students’ beliefs in their abilities to learn and their subsequent effort in school. Results showed that providing this information improved students’...
Adults seated in a dim classroom concentrate on notebooks and worksheets.

The Impact of Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn on Student Outcomes in Uganda

Nava Ashraf
Abhijit Banerjee
Vesall Nourani
Researchers, in partnership with Kimanya Ngeyo Foundation for Science and Education in Uganda, evaluated the impact of a program that trained teachers to learn like scientists: posing questions, framing hypotheses, and using real-world experience wherever possible. Researchers found positive impacts...
Two women engage in a transaction with one operating a mobile phone while the other holds a point-of-sale (POS) device

Increasing Mobile Banking Use Among Rural Populations in Ghana

Robert Osei
Emma Riley
Abu Shonchoy
Researchers assessed the impact of financial incentives and peer endorsement on mobile banking adoption and formal savings in Ghana. While financial incentives boosted adoption by 50 percent, peer endorsement was twice as effective, leading to sustained mobile banking use and a 30 percent increase...