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WORKING PAPER

Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger - Working Paper 406
Jenny C. Aker
and
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, ...
WORKING PAPER

Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries? - Working Paper 398
Ben Leo et al.
April 07, 2015
In this project, we analyzed whether mobile phone-based surveys are a feasible and cost-effective approach for gathering statistically representative information in four low-income countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe). 
Blog Post

Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
Ben Leo
and
Robert Morello
March 10, 2015
Update: This blog was updated on 3/11/2015 from the original version. The days of pushing priorities, pet projects, or expat consultants on countries are coming to a close. Connected and increasingly empowered individuals are demanding a greater say in setting priorities, designing and implementing...
WORKING PAPER

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...