We report results of a randomized control trial in which parents of primary school leavers were encouraged to open a convenient bank account operated over a mobile money platform. A lock savings account (LSA) was randomly ...

Improvements in childhood nutrition increase schooling and economic returns in later life in a virtuous cycle. However, better nutrition also leads to an earlier onset of menstruation (menarche). In socio-cultural contexts ...

The cost-effectiveness of one-time investments in teacher productivity relies crucially on two sources of persistence: the future life-time benefits to students exposed to the teachers, and the sustained productivity of ...