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Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons
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This paper reviews recent randomized evaluations of educational programs in developing countries, including programs to increase school participation, to provide educational inputs, and to reform education. It then extracts some lessons for education policy and for the practice and political economy of randomized evaluations. I. Increasing School Participation Education is widely considered to be critical for development. The internationally-agreed Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary school enrollment by 2015. However, until recently there were no good assessments of how best to achieve this goal or how much it would cost. Some argue that it will be difficult to attract additional children to school, since most children who are not in school are earning income their families need. Others argue that children of primary-school age are not that productive, and modest incentives or improvements in school quality would be sufficient. Some see school fees as essential for ensuring accountability in schools and as a minor barrier to participation, while others argue that eliminating fees would greatly increase school participation. The simplest way to increase school participation is to reduce the cost of school, or even
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- Authors
- Kremer, M.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2003-04-01
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 102-106
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2086856946
- Cited by
- 288
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 51.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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