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Sharing Research Results with Participants: An Ethical Discussion
Samantha Friedlander et al.
May 13, 2021
It is widely recognized that social science research involving human participants should be based on the principles of “doing good” and “mitigating harm.” While research results are often shared with academics and policymakers alike, it is unclear whether—and how often—they are shared with the parti...
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English on the go (World Magazine)
Jenny Aker
et al.
November 26, 2018
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Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger - Working Paper 406
Jenny C. Aker
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Christopher Ksoll
May 21, 2015
In rural areas of developing countries, education programs are often implemented through community teachers. While teachers are a crucial part of the education production function, observing their effort remains a challenge for the public sector. This paper tests whether a simple monitoring system, ...
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Call Me Educated: Mobile Phone Monitoring of Adult Education in West Africa Raises Test Scores
James Habyarimana
et al.
October 29, 2014
Education programs in rural areas of developing countries are often implemented through local agents, such as community teachers. With this knowledge, Jenny Aker and co-author Christopher Ksoll tested mobile phone monitoring systems to see if they could improve learning outcomes as part of an adult ...
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Teach Literacy by Text Message. Really. (World Bank)
Jenny Aker
et al.
July 07, 2014
Two years ago Aker et al added to [our knowledge of “what works” in adult education in low-income environments] with a study from Niger showing that a mobile phone-based component added to a standard adult literacy program improved math and literacy scores for participants, and those res...
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Learning without Teachers? A Randomized Experiment of a Mobile Phone-Based Adult Education Program in Los Angeles - Working Paper 368
Christopher Ksoll et al.
May 22, 2014
Over 755 million adults worldwide are unable to read and write in any language. Yet the widespread introduction of information and communication technology offers new opportunities to provide standardized distance education to underserved illiterate populations in both developed and developing count...
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Video | Cash Transfers Conference
May 15, 2014
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What Cash Payments Can’t Do: Lessons from #BringBackOurGirls
Jenny Aker
May 14, 2014
I have had the privilege of living and working in West Africa for the past 15 years. In 2007, I spent several months in northern Nigeria, interviewing grain traders in cross-border markets. These markets were some of my favorite places in West Africa—bustling, chaotic, open-air markets th...
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Cash Transfers: The New Benchmark for Foreign Aid?
Amanda Glassman
et al.
April 23, 2014
Cash transfer programs have shown mostly consistent success at improving conditions that matter for development; smoothing consumption, increasing school attendance and health care, sometimes improving nutritional status and helping with the accumulation of productive assets, among others. This even...
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Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique - Working Paper 328
Jenny Aker et al.
June 19, 2013
Jenny Aker and co-authors present the results of a field experiment implemented in Mozambique based on three interventions providing information to voters and calling for their participation in the elections: an SMS civic education campaign centered on the elections, an SMS hotline to which citizens...

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