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Does SDR Recycling Impair Reserve Management?
Bernat Camps Adrogué
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Mark Plant
November 14, 2023
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Phonics and Foreign Aid: Can America Teach the World to Read?
Justin Sandefur et al.
November 20, 2023
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Improving School Management of Violence in Peru
Gabriela Smarrelli
November 22, 2023
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Breaking Financing Barriers for a Just Climate Transition in Africa
Mahmoud Mohieldin et al.
November 17, 2023

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When the Data You Have Aren’t the Data You Need: School-Related Violence Data Availability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
David Evans et al.
October 16, 2023
School-related violence is a major challenge in many low- and middle-income countries yet most countries lack data to answer simple questions that policymakers might ask as precursors to taking action against school-related violence, to understand the consequences of violence, or to monitor progress...
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How Much Would Reducing Lead Exposure Improve Children’s Learning in the Developing World?
Lee Crawfurd et al.
July 30, 2023
Around half of children in low-income countries have elevated blood lead levels. What role does lead play in explaining low educational outcomes in these settings?
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The Impact of Private Schools, School Chains, and Public-Private Partnerships in Developing Countries
Lee Crawfurd
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Susannah Hares
December 16, 2021
How should governments and donors engage with the growing private sector in education in developing countries? Enrolment in private schools now exceeds 50 percent at the primary level in many major urban centres across Africa and Asia. Whilst the majority of these schools are small and independently...
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Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from across Sub-Saharan Africa
David Evans et al.
December 06, 2021
This study characterizes rates of physical and sexual violence against adolescent girls and compares rates of violence against girls who are enrolled versus unenrolled in school, to contribute to an understanding of the relative risks associated with school attendance. We look at rates of violence a...
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Understanding Education Policy Preferences: Survey Experiments with Policymakers in 35 Developing Countries
Lee Crawfurd et al.
November 30, 2021
Foreign aid donors and international organizations supporting education in developing countries have increasingly coalesced around a policy agenda prioritizing foundational learning, measured by test scores in primary school, based on a diagnosis of deficient school quality, and a growing body of em...
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Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone
Lee Crawfurd et al.
September 01, 2021
Education systems regularly face unexpected school closures, whether due to disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or other adverse shocks. In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of live tutoring calls from teachers using an RCT with 4,399 primary school students in Sierra Leone.
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Should Governments and Donors Prioritize Investments in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy?
David Evans
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Susannah Hares
May 04, 2021
Students around the world lack foundational literacy and numeracy skills at striking rates. This essay examines the potential channels by which FLN investments and skills—which most systems teach in the early grades of primary school—may impact later schooling and subsequent life outcomes and t...

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