RCT

This randomized trial investigates the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia, nine years after program inception.

Using a computer-assisted learning software in India, we ran rapid-cycle randomized evaluations that shed light on the merits of intuitively appealing yet largely untested educational strategies.

We study Zambia’s government-run foundational skills program in public primary schools. A randomized trial estimates its effects on literacy and numeracy, on the transfer of targeted skills to adjacent domains, and on later exam performance. Alongside it, 78 in-depth interviews with education personnel combine thematic coding with unsupervised machine learning to explore what drives teachers to change their instructional practices.

There is substantial emphasis on improving classroom practices, primarily through activity-based instruction, to increase the …

This randomized trial investigates the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. We estimate …

This is one of the first studies to evaluate the impact of computer-based individualized instruction in a developing country. We …

This study is one of the first evaluations of independent (i.e., self-guided) practice in math in a developing country. We randomly …