What Works in Development? brings together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we…
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Despite recent growing demand from funders and governments, rigorous impact evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean remain the…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? There is a trade-off. On the one hand, government…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
Book abstract: The Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009 builds on
the methodology and findings of the World Economic
Forum’s Global…