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The Impact of a School-Based Management Program on Student Performance in Mexico

Vicente Garcia-Moreno
Paul Gertler
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to determine the effect of a school-based management program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, on student performance in Mexico. The program combined a cash grant with state support to design and carry out school improvement plans. The intervention did not...
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Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice: A Field Experiment of Informational Interventions in the United States

Sean Cocoran
Sarah Cohodes
Jennifer Jennings
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Researchers evaluated the impact of several informational interventions with different modes of delivery and customization levels on high school choice outcomes among middle school students in New York City. All interventions made students less likely to rank a low graduation rate high school as...
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Individualized Reminders to Increase Teacher Loan Forgiveness Uptake in the United States

Brian Jacob
Damon Jones
Benjamin J. Keys
Researchers are working with Innovations for Poverty Action to study the effects of behavioral "nudges" that encourage teachers to enroll in loan forgiveness programs on program enrollment, teacher retention, and household finance.
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The Effect of Academic Achievement Awards on College Success in Canada

Joshua Angrist
Philip Oreopoulos
Tyler Williams
Researchers examined the impact of a program that offered financial merit awards combined with academic support services on the learning outcomes of Canadian university students. Results suggest that the impact of such incentives was modest.
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The Effect of Information on Employee Evaluation in the United States

Thomas Kane
Jonah Rockoff
Douglas Staiger
Eric Taylor
Researchers evaluated the effect of distributing “value-added” teacher evaluations to principals in New York City. Their findings suggest that principals found the reports useful and used them to inform their overall perceptions of teacher effectiveness.
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Leveraging Technology to Incentivize Student Effort in India

Sarojini Hirshleifer
Karthik Muralidharan
Using a technology-based math curriculum, researchers evaluated the impact of different incentive types—rewarding continuous effort in the classroom versus rewarding test performance—on student learning. Results indicate that effort-based incentives can be a more effective and cost-effective way of...
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Structured Study Time, Self-Efficacy, and Tutoring

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
In this study, researchers evaluated scalable methods to improve student retention and performance in an online course, with the goal of improving meaningful access to this resource.
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Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) in Sierra Leone

Oriana Bandiera
Niklas Buehren
Markus Goldstein
Imran Rasul
Andrea Smurra
Researchers evaluated the impact of a program in Sierra Leone called Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) that aims to address this problem by bundling health education, vocational skills training, and micro-credit. Researchers found that, while girls experienced higher teen pregnancy...