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Balsakhi

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Balsakhi
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UV7ERB
 
Creator Banerjee, Abhijit
Cole, Shawn
Duflo, Esther
Linden, Leigh
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 standard deviation, mostly due to large gains experienced by children at the bottom of the test-score distribution. A computer-assisted learning program focusing on math increased math scores by 0.47 standard deviation. One year after the programs were over, initial gains remained significant for targeted children, but they faded to about 0.10 standard deviation.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Rubio, Karl