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Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives in Kenya

Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer
Researchers evaluated three interventions that addressed the large class sizes and heterogeneity in student preparation in the Kenyan school system. They found that hiring additional local contract teachers helped reduce classroom overcrowding and improved student learning outcomes. The biggest...
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Individualized Reminders to Increase Teacher Loan Forgiveness Uptake in the United States

Brian Jacob
Damon Jones
Benjamin J. Keys
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Shaping Educational Careers of Immigrant Children: Motivation, Cognitive Skills and Teachers’ Beliefs in Italy

Michela Carlana
Eliana La Ferrara
Paolo Pinotti
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of an academic tutoring and career counseling program designed to reduce educational inequalities between native-born and immigrant children. Can tutoring and career counseling help improve the educational outcomes of high-ability...

School Choice in Andhra Pradesh, India

Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman
In India, researchers measured the impact of providing vouchers to attend private schools on student learning. Students who won vouchers had test scores that were 0.13 standard deviations higher across all subjects.
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Balsakhi Remedial Tutoring in Vadodara and Mumbai, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Shawn Cole
Esther Duflo
Leigh Linden
Researchers evaluated the impact of the Balsakhi Program, a remedial tutoring education intervention implemented in schools in Vadodara and Mumbai, India, on student learning. The program significantly improved student test scores in both locations.
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Creating Moves to Opportunity in Seattle-King County

Peter Bergman
Raj Chetty
Stefanie DeLuca
Nathaniel (Nathan) Hendren
Lawrence Katz
Christopher Palmer
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The Impact of Communication Messages on Student Performance in São Paulo, Brazil

Eric Bettinger
Guilherme Lichand
Ricardo Madeira
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The Impact of Secondary Education on Economic Decision-Making in Malawi

Researchers evaluated whether randomly providing financial support for secondary education could improve economic decision-making in addition to educational outcomes for secondary school students in Malawi. Results show that the intervention improved educational outcomes and economic decision-making...