Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
Book abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had…
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
With an estimated one hundred fifteen million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to education…
Martha Alter Chen . 2013. “” in special issue of the Indian Journal of Industrial
Relations (IJIR) on “Unorganized Workers” guest-edited…
We report the results of an experiment that was designed to test for discrimination in grading in India. We recruited teachers to grade…
Since late 2010, the world has witnessed a remarkable groundswell of political change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other…
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…