| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27799 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27799 |
| Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau | |
| Ila Fazzio; Alex Eble; Robin L. Lumsdaine; Peter Boone; Baboucarr Bouy; Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh; Chitra Jayanty; Simon Johnson; Ana Filipa Silva | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-09-14 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Children in many extremely poor, remote regions are growing up illiterate and innumerate despite high reported school enrollment ratios. Possible explanations for such poor outcomes include demand – for example, low perceived returns to education compared to opportunity cost; and supply – poor state provision and inability of parents to coordinate and finance better schooling. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial in rural Guinea Bissau to understand the effectiveness and cost of concerted supply-based interventions in such contexts. Our intervention created simple schools offering four years of education to primary-school aged children in lieu of the government. At endline, children receiving the intervention scored 58.1 percentage points better than controls on early grade reading and math tests, demonstrating that the intervention taught children to read and perform basic arithmetic, from a counterfactual condition of very high illiteracy. Our results provide evidence that particularly needy areas may require more concerted, dramatic interventions in education than those usually considered, but that such interventions hold great potential for increasing education levels among the world’s poorest people. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27799 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585471 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ila Fazzio,Alex Eble,Robin L. Lumsdaine,et al. Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau. 2020. |
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