Politicians and their promises in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India

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Cognitive achievement production in Madagascar: a value-added model approach

“…Overall, tests contained 59 items at baseline and 57 at end line, including 16 overlapping questions. On average, young adults in our sample answered 43 5 As Banerjee et al (2017) emphasized, traditional skills assessment instruments derived from formal schooling curricula may underestimate the level of skills of low-educated youth.…”

Children’s Work in African Agriculture

“…Several studies outside Africa indicate there can be learning synergies for children engaging in both school and work, with some suggestion that work may be linked to improved attainment of low-performing students (Staff and Mortimer, 2007). Work experiences can be drawn upon to learn new vocabulary, explain abstract concepts and in understanding some aspects of the curriculum (Aufseeser, 2014;Banerjee et al, 2017). There is some limited evidence that work provides children with greater confidence, skills and connections to enable them to develop small businesses to generate funds and savings to support future studies (Marsh and Kleitman, 2005;Tafere and Pankhurst, 2015).…”