Improving learning in primary schools of develo** countries: A meta-analysis of randomized experiments

PJ McEwan - Review of educational research, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
I gathered 77 randomized experiments (with 111 treatment arms) that evaluated the effects
of school-based interventions on learning in develo**-country primary schools. On …

Improving education in develo** countries: Lessons from rigorous impact evaluations

AJ Ganimian, RJ Murnane - Review of educational research, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we reviewed and interpreted the evidence from 223 rigorous impact
evaluations of educational initiatives conducted in 56 low-and middle-income countries. We …

Improving education outcomes in develo** countries: Evidence, knowledge gaps, and policy implications

P Glewwe, K Muralidharan - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2016 - Elsevier
Improvements in empirical research standards for credible identification of the causal impact
of education policies on education outcomes have led to a significant increase in the body of …

Improving educational outcomes in develo** countries: Lessons from rigorous impact evaluations

RJ Murnane, A Ganimian - NBER working paper, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper reviews and interprets the evidence from 223 rigorous impact evaluations of
educational initiatives conducted in 56 low-and middle-income countries. We consider for …

[PDF][PDF] What works to promote children's educational access, quality of learning, and wellbeing in crisis-affected contexts

D Burde, O Guven, J Kelcey… - Education …, 2015 - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
Objectives This study is a rigorous review of evidence found in the literature that shows
which interventions promote educational access, quality of learning, and wellbeing among …

Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China

H Li, PW Liu, J Zhang - Journal of Development Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors
collected from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of …

Drop** out of rural China's secondary schools: A mixed-methods analysis

Y Shi, L Zhang, Y Ma, H Yi, C Liu, N Johnson… - The China …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Students in rural China are drop** out of secondary school at troubling rates. While there
is considerable quantitative research on this issue, no systematic effort has been made to …

The heterogeneous effect of information on student performance: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mexico

C Avitabile, R De Hoyos - Journal of Development Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We use data from the randomized control trial of the Percepciones pilot to study whether
providing 10th grade students with information about the average earnings associated with …