Education

Building Back Better to Avert a Learning Catastrophe: Estimating Learning Loss from COVID-19 School Shutdowns in Africa and Facilitating Short-term and Long-term Learning Recovery

We model learning losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for cost-effective strategies to build back better. Data from …

Noam Angrist, Andreas de Barros, Radhika Bhula, Shiraz Chakera, Chris Cummiskey, Joseph DeStefano, John Floretta, Michelle Kaffenberger, Benjamin Piper, Jonathan Stern

Levers for Learning: Relationships between School-Level Factors and Literacy Outcomes in Low-Income Schools in Colombia

This study examines the relationships between school processes and literacy in public schools that serve low-income families in a …

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Andreas de Barros, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Bethany Mulimbi, Nozomi Nakajima, Paola Uccelli

Evaluating Teacher Evaluation – Evidence from Chile

This study investigates the causal effects of repeat, formative performance evaluations, under Chile’s national teacher evaluation …

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