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High Hopes: experimental evidence on saving and the transition to high school in Kenya
(Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, 2018-01-18)
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 ...
Do Domestic Violence Laws Protect Women From Domestic Violence? Evidence From Rwanda
(Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, 2021-06-10)
This paper provides causal evidence that domestic violence laws protect women in violent marriages. In 2008, Rwanda became the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to criminalize all forms of domestic violence, and allow ...
The Precocious Period: The Impact of Early Menarche on Schooling in India
(Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, 2019-07)
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 sustainability of early grade education interventions: Do learning gains and improved teacher practices persist?
(Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation, 2019-07)
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 ...