Documents & Reports

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Entrepreneurship-focused socioemotional skills for the most vulnerable youth in rural Mongolia - P165310 - Sequence No : 4 (English)

Are Short-Term Gains in Learning Outcomes Possible ? Evidence from the Malawi Education Sector Improvement Project (English)

This paper presents evidence of the impact of a five-year package of interconnected interventions intended to improve learning environments in eight disadvantaged districts in Malawi. The intervention...

Can Targeted Allocation of Teachers Improve Student Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Malawi (English)

Teachers are one of the most important inputs for learning, but in many low-income countries they are poorly distributed between schools. This paper discusses the case of Malawi, which has introduced new...

Does Effective School Leadership Improve Student Progression and Test Scores ? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi (English)

Evidence from high-income countries suggests that the quality of school leadership has measurable impacts on teacher behaviors and student learning achievement. However, there is a lack of rigorous evidence...

Learning Loss as a Result of COVID-19 : Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey in Malawi (English)

School closures from COVID-19 have resulted in large learning losses, from 0.05 to 0.17 standard deviations in high income countries, equivalent to two to six months of lost learning. However, the extent...