Abstract. This article estimates the effect of the oldest sister's education on child human capital development. In many developing countries, the oldest siste
We model household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children’s human capital accumulation. Having an older sister rather than...
Older siblings—particularly sisters—play a much larger role in caring for young children in many low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts, particularly in rural areas and among households engaged in subsistence agriculture and other forms of...
Mediation analysis aims at evaluating the causal mechanisms through which a treatment or intervention affects an outcome of interest. The goal is to disentangle the total treatment effect into an...
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...
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David EvansEducation studies tend to report impacts on access to school or on the quality of schooling, but policymakers care about both.
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Learning-adjusted years of schooling (LAYS) present the impact of interventions in terms of quality-adjusted schooling. pic.twitter.com/2MznblYJlv
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David EvansMany researchers have done good work on this. If you want a primer, try Dhaliwal et al.'s "Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries: A General Framework with Applications for Education" dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/…pic.twitter.com/EFR0NAB4UZ
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Understanding the costs of a program or policy–in addition to its impacts–is critical to making informed decisions about how limited development resources are spent. Yet the supply of cost evidence in international development is low, of inferior...
The unequal division of household work leads to the "mom penalty." For highly educated, high-income women, it could mean losing promotions, future earning power and roles as future leaders.