, begs to differ. Researchers David Evans and Fei Yuan reviewed 267 studies of education programs from 54 low- and middle-income countries to find the most effective ways to get more girls in school and improve their learning. Globally, more than 130 million girls remain out of school, according to the World Bank, due to poverty, child marriage and violence.
Instead of only examining girls education programs, they looked at all kinds of programs. To measure access, they analyzed enrollment rates, attendance, drop-out, graduation and completion rates, and to measure performance, they looked at test scores.
Their biggest finding is that gender-neutral programs such as handing out cash aid to families of school-aged children
, begs to differ. Researchers David Evans and Fei Yuan reviewed 267 studies of education programs from 54 low- and middle-income countries to find the most effective ways to get more girls in school and improve their learning. Globally, more than 130 million girls remain out of school, according to the World Bank, due to poverty, child marriage and violence.
Instead of only examining girls education programs, they looked at all kinds of programs. To measure access, they analyzed enrollment rates, attendance, drop-out, graduation and completion rates, and to measure performance, they looked at test scores.
Their biggest finding is that gender-neutral programs such as handing out cash aid to families of school-aged children
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Looking back at 10 years of Development Impact: Did our blogs age well?
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10 years is a decade. 1,500 blog posts are a lot. We thought we’d reflect a little bit on how this all went since we had the idea of starting it in 2011.
The thing that we want to start with is the quality of our readership. In the early days, we would, not infrequently, receive comments from people, including guest bloggers, along the lines of “you don’t get a lot of comments, but the ones you get are very high quality” (in the first year we received 115 comments on 179 posts; last year it was 90 comments on 123 posts). This was true from the very beginning: just check out this set of commenters on Berk’s first blog post, “Is there an ‘unmet need’ for birth control?”, which is a ‘Who’s Who’ of experts on development economics and family planning. And, each comment is like a blog post in and of itself.
Salary Delays and Overdrafts in Rural Ghana
This study uses data from a rural bank to show that receiving a late salary payment increases the likelihood of taking an overdraft by 10%
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Abstract
Checking overdrafts are an expensive yet common way for bank account holders to obtain short-term credit when faced with unexpected shocks. In developing countries, one common shock that many salaried workers face is late or erratic payment from their employer. We use administrative data from a rural bank in Ghana to show that receiving a late salary payment increases the likelihood of taking an overdraft by 10 percent. Past overdrafts are also associated with future overdrafts, suggesting that late payment exacerbates the risk of trapping workers in a costly debt cycle.