Empirical literature on digital technologies for student learning is generally unable to identify separately whether … learning gains arise from reciprocity in response to the gift of a valuable gadget (the' gadget effect') or from increasing … content. The findings show that six to eight months of exposure to eReaders led to modest positive impacts on learning, but …

This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool against gambling and lottery behavior in South Africa. The …

achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular standards and international norms … comparisons show that higher learning is associated with household wealth and parental literacy. In sharp contrast to high …. Levels of learning and the structure of the educational gaps are similar in the two samples. As in Pakistan, absolute …

learning in the context of the poor areas where PROSPERA principally operates, which tend to have overall low school quality … impacts on achievement tests. The analysis finds significant effects on learning, as measured by standardized achievement …

heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best … simply distributed to a randomly selected sample of shop owners and complemented with three experiential learning modules … coupled with experiential learning. On business performance, the study finds sizable and significant improvements as well, up …

International Reading Literacy Study. The paper then moves on to untangle how disruptive learning environments can have negative … impacts on student learning outcomes. Thus, the objective of the paper is to analyze the determinants associated with … disrupted learning environments, at the school and classroom levels, in the Middle East and North Africa region and to uncover …

This paper seeks to understand what drove the trends in learning outcomes in Argentina between 2000 and 2012, using … estimated and its results used to decompose the changes in learning outcomes into changes in inputs, parameters, and residuals … autonomy, and teacher qualifications to determine learning outcomes. Despite an important increase in the level of resources …

on learning outcomes. The potential endogeneity is addressed through the use of difference-in-difference and instrumental … variable estimators. A negative effect of working on learning outcomes in math and Portuguese is found. The effects of child … a half of a year of learning on average …

.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard …