TY - JOUR TI - Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India AU - Banerjee, Abhijit V AU - Banerji, Rukmini AU - Duflo, Esther AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Khemani, Stuti T2 - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy AB - Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their quality. We conducted a randomized evaluation of three interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation to India: providing information on existing institutions, training community members in a testing tool for children, and training volunteers to hold remedial reading camps. These interventions had no impact on community involvement, teacher effort, or learning outcomes inside the school. However, in the third intervention, youth volunteered to teach camps, and children who attended substantially improved their reading skills. This suggests that citizens face constraints in influencing public services. (JEL H52, I21, I28, O15) DA - 2010/02/01/ PY - 2010 DO - 10.1257/pol.2.1.1 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 30 J2 - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy LA - en SN - 1945-7731, 1945-774X ST - Pitfalls of Participatory Programs UR - https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pol.2.1.1 Y2 - 2020/08/30/20:10:04 KW - ___working_potential_duplicate ER - TY - BOOK TI - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric AU - Angrist, Noam AU - Evans, David K. AU - Filmer, Deon AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Rogers, F. Halsey AU - Sabarwal, Shwetlena T2 - Policy Research Working Papers DA - 2020/10/21/ PY - 2020 DP - elibrary.worldbank.org (Atypon) SP - 48 PB - The World Bank ST - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? UR - https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1596/1813-9450-9450 Y2 - 2023/09/21/17:23:22 KW - COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS KW - EDUCATION OUTCOMES KW - GOVERNMENT POLICY KW - IMPACT EVALUATION KW - LEARNING LOSS KW - PUBLIC EXPENDITURE KW - SCHOOLING KW - YEARS OF SCHOOLING ER - TY - RPRT TI - 2023 Cost-effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning - What does Recent Evidence Tell Us are “Smart Buys” for Improving Learning in Low- and Middle-income Countries? AU - Banerjee, Abhijit AU - Andrab, Tahir AU - Banerji, Rukmini AU - Dynarski, Susan AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Grantham-Mcgregor, Sally AU - Muralidharan, Karthik AU - Piper, Benjamin AU - Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime AU - Yoshikawa, Hirokazu AU - Ruto, Sara AU - Schmelkes, Sylvia AB - 2023 Cost-effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning - What does Recent Evidence Tell Us are “Smart Buys” for Improving Learning in Low- and Middle-income Countries? (English) DA - 2023/// PY - 2023 LA - en PB - World Bank Group UR - https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099420106132331608/IDU0977f73d7022b1047770980c0c5a14598eef8 Y2 - 2023/10/10/14:11:45 ER - TY - MGZN TI - The Generalizability Puzzle (SSIR) AU - Bates, Mary Ann AU - Glennerster, Rachel T2 - Stanford Social Innovation Review AB - Rigorous impact evaluations tell us a lot about the world, not just the particular contexts in which they are conducted. Open access to this article is made possible by MIT. DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 IS - Summer LA - en-us UR - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_generalizability_puzzle Y2 - 2022/09/10/12:02:17 ER - TY - SLIDE TI - The Generalizability Puzzle A2 - Bates, Mary Ann A2 - Glennerster, Rachel DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 LA - en UR - https://www.povertyactionlab.org/sites/default/files/L8_Generalizability_Bates_Global2018.pdf ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Challenge of Education and Learning in the Developing World AU - Kremer, Michael AU - Brennen, Conner AU - Glennerster, Rachel T2 - Science AB - Across many different contexts, randomized evaluations find that school participation is sensitive to costs: Reducing out-of-pocket costs, merit scholarships, and conditional cash transfers all increase schooling. Addressing child health and providing information on how earnings rise with education can increase schooling even more cost-effectively. However, among those in school, test scores are remarkably low and unresponsive to more-of-the-same inputs, such as hiring additional teachers, buying more textbooks, or providing flexible grants. In contrast, pedagogical reforms that match teaching to students' learning levels are highly cost effective at increasing learning, as are reforms that improve accountability and incentives, such as local hiring of teachers on short-term contracts. Technology could potentially improve pedagogy and accountability. Improving pre-and postprimary education are major future challenges. DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1126/science.1235350 DP - JSTOR VL - 340 IS - 6130 SP - 297 EP - 300 LA - en SN - 0036-8075 UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41942219 DB - JSTOR Y2 - 2020/06/08/10:16:10 KW - ___working_potential_duplicate ER - TY - JOUR TI - Putting a band-aid on a corpse: Incentives for nurses in the Indian public health care system AU - Banerjee, Abhijit V. AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Duflo, Esther T2 - Journal of the European Economic Association AB - The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental organization (NGO). The presence of government nurses in government public health facilities (subcenters and aid-posts) was recorded by the NGO, and the government took steps to punish the worst delinquents. Initially, the monitoring system was extremely effective. This shows that nurses are responsive to financial incentives. But after a few months, the local health administration appears to have undermined the scheme from the inside by letting the nurses claim an increasing number of “exempt days.” Eighteen months after its inception, the program had become completely ineffective. DA - 2008/// PY - 2008 DO - 10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.487 DP - PubMed Central VL - 6 IS - 2-3 SP - 487 EP - 500 J2 - J Eur Econ Assoc SN - 1542-4766 ST - Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826809/ Y2 - 2020/12/21/15:17:29 ER - TY - CHAP TI - Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries: A General Framework with Applications for Education AU - Dhaliwal, Iqbal AU - Duflo, Esther AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Tulloch, Caitlin T2 - Education policy in developing countries DA - 2013/// PY - 2013 DP - Google Scholar SP - 285 EP - 338 PB - University of Chicago Press ST - 8. Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries ER - TY - RPRT TI - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric AU - Angrist, Noam AU - Evans, David K. AU - Filmer, Deon AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Rogers, F. Halsey AU - Sabarwal, Shwetlena T2 - Policy Research Working Papers AB - Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is challenging. Some studies report changes in years of schooling; others report changes in learning. Standard deviations, the metric typically used to report learning gains, measure gains relative to a local distribution of test scores. This metric makes it hard to judge if the gain is worth the cost in absolute terms. This paper proposes using learning-adjusted years of schooling (LAYS)—which combines access and quality and compares gains to an absolute, cross-country standard—as a new metric for reporting gains from education interventions. The paper applies LAYS to compare the effectiveness (and cost-effectiveness, where cost is available) of interventions from 150 impact evaluations across 46 countries. The results show that some of the most cost-effective programs deliver the equivalent of three additional years of high-quality schooling (that is, schooling at quality comparable to the highest-performing education systems) for just $100 per child—compared with zero years for other classes of interventions. CY - Washington, DC DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DP - Zotero SP - 48 LA - en M3 - Working Paper PB - The World Bank SN - 9450 ST - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-9450 KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis KW - Education Outcomes KW - Government Policy KW - Impact Evaluation KW - Learning Loss KW - Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling KW - Public Expenditure KW - Years of Schooling KW - ___working_potential_duplicate KW - ⛔ No DOI found ER - TY - JOUR TI - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric AU - Angrist, Noam AU - Evans, David K. AU - Filmer, Deon AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Rogers, F. Halsey AU - Sabarwal, Shwetlena T2 - World Bank T3 - Policy Research Working Papers DA - 2020/10/21/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1596/1813-9450-9450 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) LA - en ST - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-9450 Y2 - 2022/04/07/17:33:22 ER - TY - JOUR TI - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric AU - Angrist, Noam AU - Evans, David K. AU - Filmer, Deon AU - Glennerster, Rachel AU - Rogers, F. Halsey AU - Sabarwal, Shwetlena T2 - World Bank T3 - Policy Research Working Papers DA - 2020/10/21/ PY - 2020 DO - 10.1596/1813-9450-9450 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) LA - en ST - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-9450 Y2 - 2022/04/07/17:33:22 ER -