Education

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School enrollment has been steadily increasing around the world in the past decade, but there remains much to be done to improve children’s access to quality education. The IPA projects in this sector seek to understand what works and what doesn't to increase school attendance, educational quality, and achievement in the developing world.

Researcher

Health

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing
Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete
Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya Status: Complete
Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules for schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Balwadi deworming in India Status: Complete
Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing

Governance & Community Participation

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing
Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete
Decentralizing Education Expenditures: Primary School Community Grants in Niger Status: Complete
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale - Public Finance in Kenya Status: Complete
Primary Education Management in Madagascar Status: Complete

Education

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing
Girls Scholarship Program in Kenya Evaluating the effects of a merit scholarship program for girls in rural western Kenya. Status: Complete
Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete
Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing
Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete
Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India Getting teachers to attend school is sometimes more difficult than getting children there! Can monitoring tied to salary incentive reduce teacher absenteeism in rural schools in India? Will reduced absenteeism increase student achievement? The answer is yes: monitoring made teachers show up, and students learned more too! Status: Complete
Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete
Fighting Procrastination among Loan Officers in Colombia Status: Complete
Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya Status: Complete
Empowering Girls in Rural Bangladesh Status: Ongoing
Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete
Enabling Young Readers: A Primary School Reading Program in the Philippines Status: Complete
Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules for schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya Providing school uniforms has a strong positive effect on student attendance and test scores in Busia, Kenya. Status: Complete
HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Balwadi deworming in India Status: Complete
School choice in Andhra Pradesh Status: Ongoing
Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing
Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing
Decentralizing Education Expenditures: Primary School Community Grants in Niger Status: Complete
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale - Public Finance in Kenya Status: Complete
Returns to secondary schooling in Ghana As progress is made towards universal primary school enrolment, and millions of children around the world complete primary schooling and hope to move on to a secondary school, an important question for policy-makers is emerging: how quickly to expand access to secondary education? Status: Ongoing
Technical Vocational Training in Mongolia Status: Ongoing
Primary Education Management in Madagascar Status: Complete
Flipcharts and School Inputs in Kenya Status: Complete
Teacher Incentives Based on Students' Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete
Balsakhi Remedial Tutoring in India Remedial tutoring is a cheap and successful way of helping the lowest-achieving students of rural India catch up to their classmates. Status: Complete
Training and Technical Assistance for New Entrepreneurs in Morocco Status: Ongoing

Ghana

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing
Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing
Returns to secondary schooling in Ghana As progress is made towards universal primary school enrolment, and millions of children around the world complete primary schooling and hope to move on to a secondary school, an important question for policy-makers is emerging: how quickly to expand access to secondary education? Status: Ongoing

What is impact of The Hunger Project on economic well-being, health outcomes, education, agricultural output, women’s empowerment and political and social involvement?

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing

Is The Hunger Project epicenter strategy sustainable?

The Hunger Project's "Epicenter" Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing

Transfers & Subsidies

Girls Scholarship Program in Kenya Evaluating the effects of a merit scholarship program for girls in rural western Kenya. Status: Complete
Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing
Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing

Kenya

Girls Scholarship Program in Kenya Evaluating the effects of a merit scholarship program for girls in rural western Kenya. Status: Complete
Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete
Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya Status: Complete
Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya Providing school uniforms has a strong positive effect on student attendance and test scores in Busia, Kenya. Status: Complete
HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing
Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale - Public Finance in Kenya Status: Complete
Flipcharts and School Inputs in Kenya Status: Complete
Teacher Incentives Based on Students' Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete

How does offering education scholarships to girls impact test scores for girls and boys?

Girls Scholarship Program in Kenya Evaluating the effects of a merit scholarship program for girls in rural western Kenya. Status: Complete

How do girls’ scholarship programs impact long-term outcomes on education, health, labor, social capital, family and other issues?

Girls Scholarship Program in Kenya Evaluating the effects of a merit scholarship program for girls in rural western Kenya. Status: Complete

Measuring Impact

Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete
Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Fighting Procrastination among Loan Officers in Colombia Status: Complete
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing
Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete
Enabling Young Readers: A Primary School Reading Program in the Philippines Status: Complete
Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules for schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya Providing school uniforms has a strong positive effect on student attendance and test scores in Busia, Kenya. Status: Complete
Returns to secondary schooling in Ghana As progress is made towards universal primary school enrolment, and millions of children around the world complete primary schooling and hope to move on to a secondary school, an important question for policy-makers is emerging: how quickly to expand access to secondary education? Status: Ongoing

Student Attendance

Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete
Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
Balwadi deworming in India Status: Complete

Does school-based deworming improve education and health outcomes?

Primary School Deworming in Kenya Common parasitic worms make many schoolchildren sick each year, which prevents them from attending school regularly. A simple school-based initiative that provided deworming medication solved this problem, and improved child health and school attendance, even in neighboring communities that hadn't received treatment! Status: Complete

Morocco

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing
Training and Technical Assistance for New Entrepreneurs in Morocco Status: Ongoing

What is the impact of a cash transfer program on the beneficiary family’s welfare, behavior and expenditures?

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing

If conditionality is necessary for cash transfers for education, what is the optimal degree of monitoring?

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing

Do cash transfers for education need to be conditional to be effective?

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco Does paying parents if their children attend school increase attendance? Status: Ongoing

Community Participation

Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete
Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India Getting teachers to attend school is sometimes more difficult than getting children there! Can monitoring tied to salary incentive reduce teacher absenteeism in rural schools in India? Will reduced absenteeism increase student achievement? The answer is yes: monitoring made teachers show up, and students learned more too! Status: Complete
Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete
Decentralizing Education Expenditures: Primary School Community Grants in Niger Status: Complete
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale - Public Finance in Kenya Status: Complete
Primary Education Management in Madagascar Status: Complete

India

Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete
Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India Getting teachers to attend school is sometimes more difficult than getting children there! Can monitoring tied to salary incentive reduce teacher absenteeism in rural schools in India? Will reduced absenteeism increase student achievement? The answer is yes: monitoring made teachers show up, and students learned more too! Status: Complete
Balwadi deworming in India Status: Complete
School choice in Andhra Pradesh Status: Ongoing
Balsakhi Remedial Tutoring in India Remedial tutoring is a cheap and successful way of helping the lowest-achieving students of rural India catch up to their classmates. Status: Complete

Does testing alone or in combination with an accelerated reading program improve basic literacy and numeracy skills?

Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete

Does information about local schools lead parents and other villagers to become more actively involved in pressing for improved schools or better functioning of schools?

Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete

Are Village Education Committees more active as a result of the interventions to provide more information about education to communities?

Information and Community Mobilization in Rural India The education systems in many developing countries leave much to be desired. Can providing communities with more information about their local education situation help fix this? Status: Complete

How does increased teacher attendance affect student performance?

Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India Getting teachers to attend school is sometimes more difficult than getting children there! Can monitoring tied to salary incentive reduce teacher absenteeism in rural schools in India? Will reduced absenteeism increase student achievement? The answer is yes: monitoring made teachers show up, and students learned more too! Status: Complete

Does daily monitoring tied to financial incentives decrease teacher absenteeism?

Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India Getting teachers to attend school is sometimes more difficult than getting children there! Can monitoring tied to salary incentive reduce teacher absenteeism in rural schools in India? Will reduced absenteeism increase student achievement? The answer is yes: monitoring made teachers show up, and students learned more too! Status: Complete

Empowering Women & Girls

Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya Status: Complete

Education Quality

Teacher Training and Free Uniforms for HIV Prevention in Primary Schools in Kenya Status: Complete
Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete
The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya Status: Complete
The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya Providing school uniforms has a strong positive effect on student attendance and test scores in Busia, Kenya. Status: Complete
Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing
Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing

Microfinance & Enterprise

Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing
Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing
Training and Technical Assistance for New Entrepreneurs in Morocco Status: Ongoing

Training

Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Technical Vocational Training in Mongolia Status: Ongoing

Post-conflict Recovery

Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing

Uganda

Northern Uganda Social Action Fund – Youth Opportunities Program The impact of unconditional cash transfers on employment, incomes, social cohesion and social stability Status: Ongoing
Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

Savings Encouragement

Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

Financial Literacy

Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs Status: Ongoing
Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

How does placing students in 'tracks' according to their level of preparedness affect outcomes?

Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete

Does local monitoring affect education outcomes?

Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete

Can hiring contract teachers locally at lower pay than civil servant teachers increase students' learning?

Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives Identifying ways to improve learning in the context of crowded primary schools in poor, rural settings. Status: Complete

Credit Access

Fighting Procrastination among Loan Officers in Colombia Status: Complete

Colombia

Fighting Procrastination among Loan Officers in Colombia Status: Complete
Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules for schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing

Mechanisms Matter

Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing

Is a student savings program an effective and efficient way to decrease student dropout rates?

Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing

How do the commitment device, pure saving, and matching grant components of a micro-savings program compare in lowering primary school dropout rates?

Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing

Does smoothing the payment of school fees make primary school more affordable?

Smoothing the Cost of Education: Primary School Saving in Uganda Evaluating the impact of a savings program for primary school students and determining whether it can serve as a means to decrease student dropout rates. Status: Ongoing

Reimagining Financial Access

Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

Product Design

Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

What are the relative impacts of financial literacy training and promotion of savings accounts on financial behavior in Uganda?

Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge and behavior?

Starting a Lifetime of Saving: Teaching the Practice of Saving to Ugandan Youth Can a basic financial education program for youth change financial awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and behavior? Status: Ongoing

What impact do the HIV/AIDS teacher training and curriculum and other interventions have on sexual behavior and outcomes?

HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya Status: Complete

Bangladesh

Empowering Girls in Rural Bangladesh Status: Ongoing

Philippines

Enabling Young Readers: A Primary School Reading Program in the Philippines Status: Complete

Can a 31-day reading “marathon” have a positive and long-lasting impact on the reading ability and academic performance of primary school students?

Enabling Young Readers: A Primary School Reading Program in the Philippines Status: Complete

Information and Communication Technology

Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules for schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing

How have fertility decisions been affected by the HIV/AIDS education and/or the education cost reduction programs?

HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing

How has sexual behavior been affected by students who participated in the HIV/AIDS education and/or the education cost reduction programs?

HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing

Are students who benefitted from the HIV/AIDS education and/or the education cost reduction programs less likely to be infected with HSV-2 five years later?

HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya Evaluating the long-term impact of two HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Western Province, Kenya. Status: Ongoing

Child Diarrhoea

Balwadi deworming in India Status: Complete

What is the most effective vocational training voucher delivery approach?

Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing

What is the impact of vocational education on labor market, migration, health and fertility outcomes?

Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing

Does vocational education affect different groups differently (e.g. men and women, those with low or high childhood cognitive performance, orphans)?

Vocational Education Voucher Delivery and Labor Market Returns in Kenya Examining the impact of vocational training on labor market and other outcomes, the demand for vocational training in Western Kenya, and the relative effectiveness of public and private vocational training institutes. Status: Ongoing

What is the relationship between initial childhood characteristics and adult labor market, health, and demographic outcomes?

Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing

What are the long-run educational, health, cognitive, demographic and labor market impacts of the child health and nutritional gains associated with childhood deworming?

Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing

How does the death of a parent affect the child in terms of subsequent educational, labor market, health, cognitive, and demographic life outcomes?

Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing

Investment and Regulation

Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing

What motivates skilled workers to emigrate from their home country?

Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing

What are the effects of the skilled worker emigration known as 'Brain Drain' on poor countries?

Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing

Niger

Decentralizing Education Expenditures: Primary School Community Grants in Niger Status: Complete

Mongolia

Technical Vocational Training in Mongolia Status: Ongoing

Madagascar

Primary Education Management in Madagascar Status: Complete

What is the relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes?

Flipcharts and School Inputs in Kenya Status: Complete

Does linking teachers' pay to students' performance increase teacher effort?

Teacher Incentives Based on Students' Test Scores in Kenya Status: Complete

Can locally hired and trained tutors improve test scores for struggling students?

Balsakhi Remedial Tutoring in India Remedial tutoring is a cheap and successful way of helping the lowest-achieving students of rural India catch up to their classmates. Status: Complete

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