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The long term impacts of grants on poverty: 9-year evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - 2019
In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants raised earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994804
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The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020
question of whether working memory (WM) training can improve them is of considerable importance. However, whether WM training … leads to improvements in these far-transfer skills is contested. Here, we examine the causal impact of WM training embedded … document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270016
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The long term impacts of grants on poverty : 9-year evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - 2019
In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $ 400 per person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants raised earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994800
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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills
Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020
question of whether working memory (WM) training can improve them is of considerable importance. However, whether WM training … leads to improvements in these far-transfer skills is contested. Here, we examine the causal impact of WM training embedded … document that 3-4 years after the intervention, the children who received training have a roughly 16 percentage points higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236361
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The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment
Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016
Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653159
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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398286
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Accounting for peer effects in treatment response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera, Felipe - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386388
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The effect of Fe y Alegria on school achievement : exploiting a school lottery selection as a natural experiment
Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016
Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595196
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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812507
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Seeking risk or answering smart? : framing in elementary schools
Wagner, Valentin - 2016
This paper investigates how framing manipulations affect the quantity and quality of decisions. In a field experiment in elementary schools, 1.377 pupils are randomly assigned to one of three conditions in a multiple-choice test: (i) gain frame (Control), (ii) loss frame (Loss) and (iii) gain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543487