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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments (2005)
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| Venue: | in India,” NBER Working Paper |
| Citations: | 317 - 37 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Banerjee05remedyingeducation:,
author = {Abhijit V. Banerjee and Shawn Cole and Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden},
title = {Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments},
booktitle = {in India,” NBER Working Paper},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
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. This project was a collaborative exercise involving many people. Foremost, we are deeply indebted to the Pratham team, who made the evaluation possible and put up with endless requests for new data: Pratima
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