The Daily Star Features IPA Studies on Mobile Finance and Gender Inequality in Bangladesh
Media Coverage
July 17, 2017

IPA researchers Jonathan Morduch and Christopher Woodruff discuss their study results on mobile financial services and obstacles to hiring female garment workers to supervisory roles in Bangladesh.
Liberia Education Intervention Evaluated by IPA Mentioned in New York Times
Media Coverage
July 15, 2017

In an op-ed in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof discusses a program to outsource management of schools in Liberia that is being evaluated by IPA. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
Liberia Education Study Mentioned in the New York Times Magazine
Media Coverage
June 27, 2017

In the New York Times Magazine, Peg Tyre mentions an IPA evaluation on outsourcing in Liberian schools. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
MineduLAB Launches Third Innovation Window
Announcement
May 15, 2017

MineduLAB has launched its Third Innovation Window, a call for proposals to identify low-cost innovations that can be evaluated using experimental methods and administrative data from the Ministry of Education of Peru (Minedu). Application materials should be submitted by May 31, 2017.

MineduLAB announces its Third Innovation Window


MineduLAB has launched its Third Innovation Window, a call for proposals to identify low-cost innovations that can be evaluated using experimental methods and administrative data from the Ministry of Education of Peru (Minedu). Researchers,...
Four Ways to Bring Evidence into Education Policy: Lessons from IPA’s Work in Emerging Markets
April 25, 2017

Editor's note: This cross-posting first appeared on NextBillion

Evidence-based policymaking. Those in the academic and think tank worlds all say they want to do it, but aren’t quite sure how. We can all agree that for evidence-based policymaking you need evidence, but you also need to “make it easy” to use that evidence, as behavioral economist Richard Thaler would say.

Evidence we have – IPA has done 600-plus randomized evaluations, more than 50 in education alone. We even have summaries of evidence highlighting education policy lessons emerging from multiple studies, such...
Liberia Education Study Discussed in The Financial Times
Media Coverage
April 21, 2017

Writing in the Financial Times magazine, David Pilling mentions an IPA evaluation on outsourcing in Liberian schools. Learn more about the preliminary results after one year here.
GhanaWeb Recaps Education Summit
Media Coverage
April 05, 2017

GhanaWeb has a recap of the recent large Ghana Education Evidence Summit, where a number of stakeholders gathered to discuss evidence-based education solutions. Read the full article below, or find more about the conference here.
U.S. News & World Report on IPA's Behavioral Interventions in Kenya
Media Coverage
March 27, 2017

The U.S. News & World Report discusses IPA's behavioral science research and RCT studies that are being conducted throughout Kenya. From the article:

Thanks to IPA and outfits like it, the next frontier for nudge theory is being developed in the developing world itself. The epicenter is Kenya – a country with relatively robust infrastructure that serves as a regional hub for international agencies and technology start-ups.
Will an RCT Change Anyone’s Mind? Should It?
January 25, 2017

By Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz

Editor’s note: This cross-post originally appeared on the Center for Global Development blog

We respond to critics of our evaluation of Liberia’s “partnership” school program, distinguishing legitimate concerns about the charter-style program itself—which can be turned into testable hypotheses—from methodological limitations to what an impact evaluation can show.

The three of us are running a randomized control trial of the "Partnership Schools for Liberia" (PSL) program, which is President Ellen Johnson...
IPA in the Washington Post with What We've Learned About Poverty
Media Coverage
January 01, 2017

IPA Executive Director Annie Duflo and Senior Policy Communications Associate Jeff Mosenkis write about our work in The Washington Post. Arguing against prevailing views that the world is getting worse, they show that many measures of poverty have been improving, and cite four recent areas where we've learned what works. Read the full piece from the link below.
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Sending Money Directly to School Accounts in Tanzania: Using Experience to Inform Policy
Isaac Mbiti, Karthik Muralidharan
December 20, 2016

Twaweza’s per-student grant direct disbursements and advocacy contributed to Tanzanian government’s decision to send education funds directly to schools.  

 

Educational outcomes remain poor in East Africa despite a decade of reforms and new investments. There is a growing body of research that suggests these low levels of learning are driven in part by the limited accountability in the education system. Performance-based teacher incentives could potentially address the learning crisis by better motivating teachers, and also re-orienting the focus of the education system...
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Text Message Support to Teachers in Kenya Improves Teaching, Learning and Keeps Children in School
Matthew Jukes
October 27, 2016

The Health and Literacy Intervention (HALI) project replaced expensive in-person coaching with text messages and found that they effectively supported teachers in improving their pedagogy, helped children learn to read, and reduced dropout by 50 percent (full study summary here, paper here).

For some, text messages are merely a tool for undermining children’s ability to spell. But could they also help children to read in parts of the world where this help is needed most? And in doing so, could text messages address one of the toughest challenges in education worldwide - c l8tr 4...
Early Childhood Education Researcher Sharon Wolf profiled by University of Pennsylvania
Media Coverage
September 21, 2016

IPA researcher Sharon Wolf, whose research with IPA involves improving early childhood education Ghana and Kenya, is profiled by the University of Pennsylvania.
Challenging conventional wisdom about girl’s schooling
Media Coverage
September 09, 2016

There are many stories about why children fail to enter, attend, or complete schooling, in places like Liberia. Tricia Koroknay-Palicz examines this issue through an impact evaluation of the International Rescue Committee’s Sisters of Success (SOS) program, in Monrovia Liberia.
Peruvian MineduLAB feature story
Media Coverage
September 08, 2016

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs website has a feature story on IPA Researcher Christopher Neilson (Princeton University) and his work on the Peruvian MineduLAB, a new lab for education policy housed within a governmental ministry, together with IPA and J-PAL.

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