Education
J-PAL’s Education sector seeks to improve access to and delivery of high-quality schooling at the primary and post-primary levels through research on issues like pedagogy, teacher training, incentives (for children, for teachers, for families), school governance, early childhood development, and information and communications technology.
The Post-Primary Education (PPE) Initiative aims to generate rigorous evidence on policies to increase access to, and improve the quality and relevance of, secondary, tertiary, and vocational education in developing countries. The PPE Initiative 8th Round Request for Proposals (RFP) closed on May 7, 2017. Funding decisions will be announced in mid-June.
Publication
Expanding Access and Increasing Student Learning in Post-Primary Education in Developing Countries: A Review of the Evidence
In this review, J-PAL affiliates Abhijit Banerjee and Paul Glewwe along with Shawn Powers and Melanie Wasserman synthesize the evidence to date on post-primary education and identify policies that...
affiliate
Claudia Martínez
Claudia is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Economics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research focuses on distribution of power inside households, migration, education and...
Scale-Up
Remedial education
Programs that reorient classroom instruction to focus on the learning level of the child are reaching over 47 million children in India.
Scale-Up
School-based deworming
School-based deworming programs scaled up by Evidence Action, local implementing partners, and other related organizations reached over 190 million children in the 2015-16 school year in India, Kenya...
Evaluation
The Effect of Charter School Best Practices in Public Schools in the United States
This study examined whether the combination of five charter school best practices could improve student achievement within traditional public schools in Texas. Results suggest that implementing...
Publication
Informing Future Choices
In Chile, showing eighth grade students a video about financial aid for higher education resulted in increased school attendance and increased enrollment in college-preparatory schools, but not in...
Lesson
Improving Student Participation
The results of randomized evaluations reveal the most cost-effective approaches to improving student attendance.
Lesson
Increasing Test Score Performance
The impacts of numerous strategies to improve student learning vary considerably. They also incur drastically different costs, and some programs therefore achieve learning gains with much greater...
