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IPA & Graduation Model Featured on PBS NewsHour

IPA's rigorous, research-driven approach to discovering what works, and what doesn't, in reducing poverty was covered by PBS NewsHour this month. The story features IPA Founder Dean Karlan and affiliate Rachel Glennerster of the U.K.'s Department for International Development talking about the Graduation Model and how evidence can inform the policy debate about foreign aid. Watch the program here.

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Educate! Program in Uganda Led to an Improvement in Soft Skills, Reductions in Intimate Partner Violence, and Other Positive Impacts for Young Men and (Especially) Women

© Cartier Philanthropy. Photographer: Andrea Borgarello
 
Researchers: Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler 
 
In Uganda, researchers partnered with Educate! to study the impact of the Educate! Experience programa leadership and entrepreneurship skill development program for secondary school students—on economic and social welfare, as well as on intimate partner violence. Preliminary results suggest that four years after the intervention, graduates’ soft skills improved relative to non-graduates, as did their graduation rates from secondary school and enrollment in tertiary education (for women). Important positive social impacts were also recorded. Educate! graduates reported fewer sexual partners, being less sexually active, and delaying family formation. They exhibited more egalitarian gender views and expressed reduced social acceptability of violence, as well as a lower incidence or threats of physical violence. 
 
Read the full summary here.

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More School Resources + Better Teacher Incentives = Improved Student Learning in Tanzania

Researchers: Isaac Mbiti, Karthik Muralidharan, Mauricio Romero, Youdi Schipper, Constantine Manda, Rakesh Rajani
 
Improving education quality in low-income countries is a top priority in international development, with governments and donors spending over a hundred billion dollars annually on education. In Tanzania, researchers evaluated the impact on student learning of providing schools with an unconditional cash grant, a teacher incentive program, or both. In a paper published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, researchers report that the cash grant alone had no impact on student learning, while the teacher incentive program alone had mixed results. However, combining both programs together had a significant positive impact on student learning—larger than the sum of the effects of each individual component alone. These results suggest that combining spending on school inputs (the default policy) with improved teacher incentives could substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of public spending on education.
 
Read the full summary here and the published paper here.

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IPA and Ghana Ministry of Education to Present Workshop at UKFIET

September 19 | Oxford, United Kingdom

IPA and Government Partners to Participate in Panels at What Works Global Summit (WWGS)
October 14-18 | Mexico City, Mexico

Education Evidence for Action (EE4A) Conference 2019
November 27-29 | Machakos, Kenya

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Ghana National Education Week: Evidence Summit 2019
August 7 | Accra, Ghana

IPA Kenya Facilitates Policy Opportunity Matchmaking Workshop at the 8th Annual EASST Summit
July 23 | Nairobi, Kenya

IPA Kenya Partners with CEGA for 8th Annual EASST Summit
July 22-23 | Nairobi, Kenya

IPA Ghana Co-Hosts 2019 Evidence to Action Conference
July 9-12 | Accra, Ghana

IPA Ghana Hosts Dissemination of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Results
June 27 | Accra, Ghana

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