Human capital

Whole-School Reform and Early Adolescent Development

In collaboration with Morocco’s Ministry of Education, we evaluate a government-led reform of public lower-secondary schools across 200 schools, estimating its effects on learning, dropout, grade progression, and socioemotional skills.

Andreas de Barros, Alejandra Campos Quintero, Najiba El Amrani Mida, Paul Glewwe, Nikhil Kumar, Laure Lépine

Whole-School Reform and Early Adolescent Development

Evaluation Scores and Student Learning under Compulsory Teacher Re-Evaluation

We examine how lower-performing public school teachers respond to more frequent formative evaluations. A 2011 reform in Chile required …

Aaron Ainsworth, Andreas de Barros

The Best Buy? From Global Evidence to Government Practice

Can governments translate evidence on “what works” into learning gains in public schools? Morocco combined targeted …

Hosam Ibrahim, Andreas de Barros, Sarah Deschênes, Paul Glewwe

Developing Socioemotional Skills in Early Adolescence: Experimental Evidence from Morocco's Public Schools

We investigate a government-delivered socioemotional support intervention in Morocco’s public lower-secondary schools. The …

Andreas de Barros, Alejandra Campos Quintero, Paul Glewwe, Nikhil Kumar, Laure Lépine

Beyond Basics: Whole-School Reform and Early Adolescent Development

This study investigates whether a government-led, whole-school reform in public lower secondary schools can simultaneously reduce …

Andreas de Barros, Alejandra Campos Quintero, Najiba El Amrani Mida, Paul Glewwe, Nikhil Kumar, Laure Lépine

Targeting Foundational Skills at Scale: Skill Specificity and Transfer

Whether targeted foundational instruction yields broad, long-term human capital gains is central to education policy but largely …

Andreas de Barros, Theresa Lubozha