returns to education

To be more effective, adult literacy programmes need to incorporate the neuroscience of how adults learn and how this differs from children.

What do we know, and what do we need to know, about higher education in low- and middle-income countries?

Evidence from India shows that inequality between children starts at home, when parents decide how to split investments in education between their children

A community-led intervention in Northern Nigeria significantly reduced rates of child marriage in adolescent girls by changing entrenched, normative behaviour

Enterprise growth for small businesses in India led to schooling gains for children of literate parents but schooling losses for children of illiterate parents, lowering relative intergenerational mobility

Expanded public schooling in India increased education and earnings for students in targeted regions, but estimates of this effect are dampened when accounting for broader economic changes

Parents respond to information by increasing their educational investment, but this initial response decays unless report cards are sustained

While caste-based occupations may hold 'productivity benefits', removing the discriminatory links between low castes and work brings even larger gains

An increase in risk can reduce the probability of a child attending school by 4–5%