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WORKING PAPER

Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development

Orazio Attanasio et al.

September 25, 2025

The Hemicycle of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

TESTIMONY

Remarks to the European Parliament on EFSD/ EFSD+

Mikaela Gavas

September 24, 2025

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CGD NOTE

Analyzing USAID Program Disruptions: Implications for PEPFAR Programming and Beneficiaries

Ramona Godbole

September 17, 2025

POLICY PAPER

Financing of Healthcare Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Pete Baker et al.

September 30, 2025

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Changing Perceptions of Educational Returns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis

David Evans

and

Amina Mendez Acosta

August 19, 2024

Campaigns that provide information on the returns to education lead to more accurate student beliefs about the average value of further schooling. Those beliefs may be revised either upward or downward, depending on the direction of initial bias.

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WORKING PAPER

The Role of Fathers in Promoting Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence

David Evans

and

March 25, 2024

The role of fathers in parenting young children differs dramatically across societies. Policymakers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly focused on increasing the amount of early childhood stimulation and other investments received by young children in an attempt to increase ...

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WORKING PAPER

The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

David Evans et al.

January 23, 2024

Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. While the impacts of these programs on women’s labor market outcomes are consistently positive, what are the impacts on children’s developmental outcomes? We systematically review 71 studies of center-based ch...

WORKING PAPER

Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice

Anna Popova et al.

September 27, 2019

Many teachers in low- and middle-income countries lack the skills to teach effectively, and professional development (PD) programs are the principal tool that governments use to upgrade those skills. At the same time, few PD programs are evaluated, and those that are evaluated show highly varying re...

WORKING PAPER

What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls

David Evans

and

Fei Yuan

July 18, 2019

Previous efforts to synthesize evidence on how to improve educational outcomes for girls have tended to focus on interventions that are principally targeted to girls, such as girls’ latrines or girls’ scholarships. But if general, non-targeted interventions—those that benefit both girls and boys—sig...

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