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Blog Post
January 16, 2025
In October 2023, the Learning at Scale study officially came to a close. The study was designed to investigate factors contributing to successful improvements in foundational learning outcomes in effective, large-scale early grade literacy and numeracy programs. These programs are typically in short...
Blog Post
January 07, 2025
At the Global Education Meeting which was held in in Fortaleza a few weeks ago, governments around the world made the latest in a long line of commitments to "remove barriers to gender equality in and through education". But is this all just cheap talk? The value of educating girls might be one of t...
Blog Post
December 13, 2024
As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the diversity of contexts in which school meals programmes are implemented, there is still a need for more rigorous evidence on the impacts of schoo...
Blog Post
December 12, 2024
In poorer countries examples of real success are few and far between, but one contender in recent years has been the city of Sobral in the state of Ceará in Brazil. Despite being a poorer region of the country, Sobral and Ceará shot up the ranking on domestic tests. A World Bank report from 2020 hai...
WORKING PAPERS
December 10, 2024
We study how marriage market considerations influence parental investments in daughters’ education in Pakistan. Using a hypothetical choice methodology, we estimate parents’ preferences and willingness-to-pay for marital customs and daughters’ marital and post-marital outcomes. Our findings highligh...
Blog Post
December 10, 2024
In many low- and middle-income countries, women often don’t participate in the formal labor force. In these settings, the labor market returns to schooling are unlikely to be salient for parents making schooling choices for their children. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in these same settings, girls face ...