Education

As countries in Sub-Saharan Africa debate the costs and benefits of subsidising secondary education, a 15-year RCT in Ghana finds large multi-generation impacts.

An empowerment programme in Sierra Leone that supported girls through a simple life skills and livelihood training buffered adolescent girls from the adverse effects of the Ebola crisis.

Low-income students are more likely to attend schools with less-qualified teachers widening achievement gaps. The Peruvian government’s novel and low-cost nationwide strategy was successful at encouraging highly qualified teachers to apply for jobs i...

Later sunsets reduce children's sleep, harming their learning and long-term education outcomes in India.

A merit-based teacher hiring reform succeeded in recruiting teachers with better qualifications, but the replacement of more experienced teachers led to a decline in student outcomes.

New evidence from Morocco reveals that conditional cash transfers can constrain learning when no accompanying measures are taken by governments to account for increased enrolment.

Stereotyped assessments by teachers exacerbate gender disparities in educational outcomes for high school students in Peru. New evidence shows that these negative impacts persist years later in labour market gender gaps.

The impacts of a school feeding programme in Colombia go beyond school attendance and hunger relief, fostering learning, high school graduation and tertiary enrolment.

Mexico’s preschool mandate in 2002 shows significant, lasting benefits for cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills after six years, and educational outcomes nearly two decades later.