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Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya

Joan Hamory
Michael Kremer
Isaac Mbiti
Edward Miguel
What are the impacts of vocational education on labor markets, migration patterns, and health and fertility outcomes in Kenya?
A teacher writes on chalk board in Kenya.

Flipcharts, School Inputs, and Retrospective versus Prospective Analyses in Kenya

Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin
Eric Zitzewitz
Researchers provided educational flipcharts to 89 randomly selected Kenyan primary schools and evaluated their impact on student learning, comparing retrospective and prospective estimates. In the prospective study, the estimated impact of flipcharts on student test scores was found to be close to...
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Credit, Change, and Lost Sales: A Field Experiment Among Firms in Kenya

Lori Beaman
Jeremy Magruder
Jonathan Robinson
High school students in career mentoring program in France

Career Mentoring for Secondary Students in France (Actenses)

Luc Behaghel
Vera Chiodi
Marc Gurgand
Researchers examined the impact of a mentoring program on high school students' academic achievement, job market knowledge, and career-related goals. The program changed students' academic ambitions, but had no impact on their professional plans, knowledge about the professional world, or motivation...

School Meals, Educational Achievement and School Finance in Kenya

Michael Kremer
Christel Vermeersch
Researchers examined the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in Western Kenya. The results suggest that the meals program led to improved school participation, as well as higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the...

Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of sending text message reminders to clients holding programmed savings accounts.
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Understanding Male Fertility Preferences in Zambia

Nava Ashraf
Erica Field
Alessandra Voena
Researchers in Zambia evaluated the impact of teaching husbands about the dangers of maternal mortality on their acceptance of family planning methods.

Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman
In “the text message capital of the world,” the Philippines, researchers tested the effect of text message reminders on client repayment rates. In contrast with previous research, they found that text message reminders did not increase repayment on average. Yet for repeat borrowers, who had known...