One of the leading reasons behind social inequities is that elite groups have had access to more widespread and higher-quality educational o...
Did the dramatic learning losses from remote learning in the context of COVID-19 stem at least partly from schools having overlooked student...
The transition to remote learning in the context of COVID-19 led to dramatic setbacks in education. To what extent has the return to in-pers...
Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs are currently understood as critical for children’s cognitive and socioemotional development, esp...
How do parents plan to and effectively share resources with their children over time? In a lab-in-the-field experiment in Malawi, we show th...
The educational and health impacts of school closures and reopening in the pandemic, taking advantage of two natural experiments in São Paulo State. Project in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and the São Paulo State Education Secretariat.
Parents in Malawi are compelled to marry off their under-age daughters in villages where child marriage is prevalent out of social image concerns. Alternative signals of social preferences can disrupt that signaling equilibrium and affect child marriage, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts.
Informational interventions often have enormous impacts on decision-making. Is it because those interventions make beliefs more accurate with respect to the ground truth, or because they reallocate attention towards the dimension they target -- perhaps even leading subjects to acquire decision-relevant information themselves?
Financial worries brought about by the threat of a drought capture poor farmers' attention, memory and impulse control in the Brazilian Northeast.
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