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Evaluating The Child Development Grant Program (CGDP) in Nigeria

Pedro Carneiro
Lucie Moore
Imran Rasul

Improving Health Provider Performance in Kenya

Isaac Mbiti
Danila Serra
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Teachers' traditional beliefs about gender negatively impact the academic performance of girls in Turkey

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac
Ipek Mumcu
To better understand gender inequalities in academic achievement, choice of occupation, and labor market outcomes, researchers studied the effect of teachers’ beliefs about gender roles on student achievement in Istanbul, Turkey. Girls who were taught by teachers with traditional gender views had...
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Comparaison de projets de collecte de fonds caritatifs en Allemagne

Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul
Andrew Shephard

Accompagnement des demandeurs d'emploi – OPP/CVE, France

Luc Behaghel
Bruno Crépon
Marc Gurgand
High school students in career mentoring program in France

Parrainage des jeunes pour leur projet professionnel (Actenses), France

Luc Behaghel
Vera Chiodi
Marc Gurgand
Les chercheurs ont examiné l'impact du programme de mentorat et d'orientation sur les résultats scolaires, les connaissances professionnelles et les objectifs de carrière de 2 500 élèves de 22 établissements écoles secondaires. Dans l'ensemble, le programme de mentorat a modifié les ambitions...
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Faciliter l'accès des jeunes à l'apprentissage, France

Thomas Le Barbanchon
Bruno Crépon
Marc Gurgand
Roland Rathelot
Philippe Zamora

How Malleable are Non-Cognitive Skills? Measuring the Impact of Increasing Grit in Turkey

Sule Alan
Teodora Boneva
Seda Ertac
Researchers worked with public elementary schools in Istanbul to measure the effects of a “grit curriculum” on fourth-grade students’ perseverance, competitiveness, and test scores. Students who were exposed to the grit curriculum in 2013 earned higher scores on math exams, and the program also...