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Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya

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  25. Evans, David K. & Yuan, Fei & Filmer, Deon, 2022. "Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
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  27. Lucas Ronconi & Ana Lúcia Kassouf, 2023. "Demand-Side Obstacles to Publishing Economics Research: A View from the South," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 23(1), pages 99-105, January.
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  29. Sonia Laszlo & Muhammad Farhan Majid & Laëtitia Renée, 2024. "Conditional cash transfers and women's reproductive choices," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(2), February.
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  31. Hikaru Kawarazaki, 2023. "Early childhood education and care: effects after half a century and their mechanisms," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(4), pages 2725-2797, October.
  32. Masselus, Lise & Petrik, Christina & Ankel-Peters, Jörg, 2024. "Lost in the design space? Construct validity in the microfinance literature," Ruhr Economic Papers 1097, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
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  34. Deepak Saraswat & Shwetlena Sabarwal & Lindsey Lacey & Natasha Jha & Nishith Prakash & Rachel Cohen, 2025. "Shaping Future Success: Evidence from an Early Childhood Human Capital Formation Intervention," CESifo Working Paper Series 12160, CESifo.
  35. Agostinelli, Francesco & Avitabile, Ciro & Bobba, Matteo, 2021. "Enhancing Human Capital at Scale," IZA Discussion Papers 14192, IZA Network @ LISER.
  36. Stefano DellaVigna & Elizabeth Linos, 2022. "RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence From Two Nudge Units," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 90(1), pages 81-116, January.
  37. Patrick John Barron & Patricia Fernandes & Stephen Joseph Winkler & Michael Woolcock, 2024. "A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development : Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10883, The World Bank.
  38. Vivalt, Eva & Coville, Aidan, 2023. "How do policymakers update their beliefs?," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
  39. Fazzio, Ila & Eble, Alex & Lumsdaine, Robin L. & Boone, Peter & Bouy, Baboucarr & Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny & Jayanty, Chitra & Johnson, Simon & Silva, Ana Filipa, 2021. "Large learning gains in pockets of extreme poverty: Experimental evidence from Guinea Bissau," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 199(C).
  40. Gazeaud, Jules & Ricard, Claire, 2024. "Learning effects of conditional cash transfers: The role of class size and composition," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).
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  42. Matteo Bobba & Tim Ederer & Gianmarco León-Ciliotta & Christopher A. Neilson & Marco Nieddu, 2021. "Teacher compensation and structural inequality: Evidence from centralized teacher school choice in Perú," Economics Working Papers 1788, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  43. Cristina Bellés-Obrero & María Lombardi, 2022. "Teacher Performance Pay and Student Learning: Evidence from a Nationwide Program in Peru," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(4), pages 1631-1669.
  44. OLUSOLA, Felix Oluwaseun & AKINOLA, Oluwadamilola Adeyinka, 2025. "Payroll Leakages and Education Financing: Evidence From Ekiti State’s 2020 Staff Verification Exercise," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 9(9), pages 9057-9063, September.
  45. Maruyama, Takao & Kurosaki, Takashi, 2021. "Do remedial activities using math workbooks improve student learning? Empirical evidence from scaled-up interventions in Niger," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
  46. Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo & Clément Imbert & Santhosh Mathew & Rohini Pande, 2020. "E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(4), pages 39-72, October.
  47. Yuehao Bai, 2022. "Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials," Papers 2206.07845, arXiv.org.
  48. Abramovsky, Laura & Augsburg, Britta & Lührmann, Melanie & Oteiza, Francisco & Rud, Juan Pablo, 2023. "Community matters: Heterogeneous impacts of a sanitation intervention," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
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  57. Biasi, Barbara & Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron, 2025. "The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10," IZA Discussion Papers 17836, IZA Network @ LISER.
  58. Eble, Alex & Frost, Chris & Camara, Alpha & Bouy, Baboucarr & Bah, Momodou & Sivaraman, Maitri & Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny & Jayanty, Chitra & Brady, Tony & Gawron, Piotr & Vansteelandt, Stijn & Boone, P, 2021. "How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the Gambia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
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  60. Priebe, Jan & Sumarto, Sudarno, 2025. "Reducing child marriages through CCTs: Evidence from a large-scale policy intervention in Indonesia," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
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