Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

School closures occurred extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic, and occur in other
settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. The cost of school closures has …

Did the dramatic learning losses from remote learning in the context of COVID-19 stem at
least partly from schools having overlooked students' socio-emotional skills—such as their …

The Covid-19 pandemic led to school closures all over the world, leaving children across
diverse contexts without formal education for nearly a year. Remote-learning programs were …

Remote learning programs were rapidly implemented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
during school closures. We drew on an ongoing longitudinal study of a cohort of children in …

Millions of children in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not realize their learning
potential, and this has profound consequences: in sub-Saharan Africa, 30 percent of youths …

Child labor is a pervasive practice; according to the International Labor Organization, there
are 160 million child workers worldwide. That figure might, however, greatly underestimate …

Whether SMS-based nudge interventions can increase parent engagement and improve
child learning outcomes across diverse contexts such as rural West Africa is unknown. We …

The impacts of COVID-19 reach far beyond the hundreds of lives lost to the disease; in
particular, the pre-existing learning crisis is expected to be magnified during school …

Through a large-scale household-randomized trial, we document divergent and unintended
effects of a SMS-nudge parenting intervention in Ghana. For parents with some exposure to …