Education
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 listed below seek to understand what works and what doesn't to increase school attendance, educational quality, and achievement in the developing world. |
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Evaluating an Epicenter Scale-Up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of a comprehensive rural development program. Status: Ongoing |
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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 |
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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 |
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Evaluating The Hunger Project's Epicenter Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of The Hunger Project’s (THP) broad epicenter development strategy to gain a deeper understanding of the links between health, education and economic development in the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Status: Ongoing |
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Empowering parents with education information in Sierra Leone Can informing parents of their rights to a free primary education for their children improve school accountability and performance? Status: Ongoing |
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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 |
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Evaluating The Hunger Project's Epicenter Scale up Strategy in Ghana Evaluating the impact of The Hunger Project’s (THP) broad epicenter development strategy to gain a deeper understanding of the links between health, education and economic development in the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Status: Ongoing |
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Role of information and radios on political knowledge and participation in Sierra Leone For communities and groups with very little access to information, can radios improve lives and promote good governance by increasing knowledge about local and national politics, affecting attitudes towards gender, and/or improving knowledge of good health practices? Status: Ongoing |
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Profamilia's Online Sexual Education Modules: A randomized control trial among schools in urban Colombia Examining the effectiveness of internet-based sexual education modules as a tool to increase knowledge and improve behaviors Status: Ongoing |
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Role of information and radios on political knowledge and participation in Sierra Leone For communities and groups with very little access to information, can radios improve lives and promote good governance by increasing knowledge about local and national politics, affecting attitudes towards gender, and/or improving knowledge of good health practices? Status: Ongoing |
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Smoothing the Cost of Education: Micro-Savings in Primary Schools 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 |
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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 |
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Brain Drain in Ghana What are the determinants and effects of "brain drain", the emigration of highly skilled workers? Status: Ongoing |
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Kenyan Life Panel Survey Examining child health and other long-term outcomes in Western Kenya. Status: Ongoing |
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Primary Schools in Kenya Examining the effectiveness of new teacher training in safe sex practices. Status: Complete |