Beyond the Classroom: Evidence on New Directions in Financial Education

Financial education is widely used by governments, financial service providers, and non-governmental organizations as a tool to help people navigate the financial system and make better financial choices, but evidence shows that the conventional approach is not working. This brief explores evidence on innovative approaches that hold promise and discusses where policymakers and purveyors should go from here.

IMPACT STORY
TextDirect Scales Up Malaria Text Messages Based on Evidence from IPA Study

Many malaria patients do not complete the full course of treatment, which may increase the risk of drug resistance and undermine efforts to combat malaria. An IPA study found that sending text message reminders to malaria patients reminding them to complete their full course of medication increased adherence in Northern Ghana. In response to these findings, an organization called TextDirect is scaling up the approach.

BLOGS

Can Financial Inclusion Change Gender Norms?
By Kyle Holloway

Will an RCT Change Anyone’s Mind? Should It?
By Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur, and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz

Running a Randomized Control Trial in a Real Health System
By Anne Karing and Arthur Baker

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EVENTS

UPCOMING

Ghana Education Evidence Summit 2017
March 28, 2017

IPA/J-PAL Africa Executive Education Course
July 10–14, 2017

IPA Kenya and PWG Hold Conference on Vocational Training
January 26–28

IPA Colombia Presents on Improving Security to Bogotá City Officials
January 23

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