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Rafiuddin Najam; Alison Johnston – Education Economics, 2023
Public higher education is chronically under-funded in developing countries, making private investment necessary for human capital development. We investigate if information provision mobilizes support for private investment in public higher education by employing an online RCT in Afghanistan. We find that information cues impact respondents'…
Descriptors: Preferences, Tuition, State Universities, Foreign Countries
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Pontoppidan, Maiken; Keilow, Maria; Dietrichson, Jens; Solheim, Oddny Judith; Opheim, Vibeke; Gustafson, Stefan; Andersen, Simon Calmar – Educational Research, 2018
Background: The Scandinavian countries have a long history of implementing social interventions, but the interventions have not been examined using randomised controlled trials until relatively recently compared with countries like the United States and the United Kingdom. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of randomised…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
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Seidenfeld, David; Prencipe, Leah; Handa, Sudhanshu; Hawkinson, Laura – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Little research has been conducted on unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) despite their growing prevalence in Africa, including South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, and Uganda. In this study, researchers implemented a randomized control trial with over 2,500 households to investigate the impact of Africa's child grant program on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Grants, Young Children