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The Impact of Outsourcing School Management in Liberia Public-private partnerships to provide education in low-income countries are common, yet controversial. In Liberia, researchers worked with IPA, the Ministry of Education, and a set of eight private operators to conduct a randomized evaluation that measured the impact of 93 partnership schools—free public schools with management outsourced to private operators. After three years, partnership schools raised test scores by 0.21 standard deviations in math and 0.16 standard deviations in English (equivalent to 4 words per minute additional reading fluency for the cohort that started in first grade). Looking beyond learning gains, the program reduced corporal punishment (by 4.6 percentage points from a base of 51%), but increased
dropout (by 3.3 percentage points from a base of 15%) and failed to reduce sexual abuse. Results vary by provider: some produced uniformly positive results, while others present stark trade-offs between learning gains and other outcomes.
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In this film, a data collection team with Innovations for Poverty Action travels to Pujehun district in Sierra Leone to conduct surveys for a randomized evaluation. While there, the team meets with elders, navigates barely passable roads, and travels by canoe to track survey respondents, all part of their mission to collect high-quality data—data that is fed into the research and evidence decision-makers need in order to know what works, what doesn't, and why.
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Does Disseminating Information through Peer Networks Reinforce Gender Inequalities? Researchers: Lori Beaman, Andrew Dillon
Social networks are often seen as a cost-effective way to disseminate information, but there is a lack of evidence to inform who to give information to within a network to best reach others within the community. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in Mali to study the role of giving information to different people within a network in the spread of that information. Farmers more closely connected to those who were trained had more information. Female farmers were less likely to receive information, indicating that disseminating information through social networks may reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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Five Lessons From a Year of Sharing Evidence Strategically
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Why We Are Building A Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Initiative
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Embedded Evidence Labs: From Peru to Ghana to Zambia
By Annie Chumpitaz Torres and Besnart Simunchembu Kangalu
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IPA Listed in Vox's Best Charities of 2019
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Quartz on Liberia's Education Experiment
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Devex Covers IPA 3-Year Education Results in Liberia
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PBS on Impacts of an Interfaith Soccer League in Post-ISIS Iraq
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Foreign Policy Op-Ed on the Potential of RCTs in Wake of Nobel Prize Win
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NPR on an IPA Evaluation of GiveDirectly in Kenya
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Washington Post on an IPA Study of GiveDirectly Cash Transfers
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Vox Covers IPA Study of GiveDirectly's Cash Grant Program
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Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo in Foreign Affairs on Going Beyond Growth to Reduce Poverty
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United News of Bangladesh on IPA Evidence Around Rohingya Refugees
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Interview with Esther Duflo in The Progressive on IPA, J-PAL, and the Movement to Reduce Poverty
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IPA Hosts Workshop on Promising Approaches to Address Child Stunting
December 11 | Washington, DC, United States
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IPA Peru Co-Hosts Academic and Policy Conference on Public Applications of Behavioral Science
December 5 | Lima, Peru
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IPA Co-Hosts Policy Workshop on Evidence in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh
December 3 | Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Education Evidence for Action (EE4A) Conference 2019
November 27-29 | Machakos, Kenya
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Book Launch: Good Economics For Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
November 25 | New York City, United States
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