Background Gender disparities in education continue to undermine girls' opportunities,
despite enormous strides in recent years to improve primary enrolment and attainment for …

We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by
fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale …

This paper extends the theory of inverse frontier-based benchmarking to address the issue
of effectiveness when investigating the efficiency of household expenditure in the case of the …

Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving
education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students. Making …

We evaluate two experiments of early childhood development (ECD) programs in the
Gambia, one increasing access to services and another improving service quality. In the first …

More than two dozen developing countries have implemented policies to increase teacher
compensation in rural schools. We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance …

We examine whether alleviating financial and logistical barriers to secondary education can
reduce child marriage. Using a randomized controlled trial including 285 localities in Niger …

Early childhood experiences lay the foundation for outcomes later in life. Large shares of
children in Africa enter formal education without prior exposure to any structured pre-school …

This paper provides new evidence on the impact on educational attainment of an
international child support (ICS) program, implemented in ten primary schools located in the …

Abstract Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes in a developing
country context indicates a positive impact on increasing enrollment but finds mixed …