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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...

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Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa

Jedwab, Remi; Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

What is the impact of modern transportation technology on long-run economic change in poor countries with high trade costs? Rail construction in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa provides a natural experiment: 90% of African rail-road lines were built before independence, in a context where...

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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa

Fafchamps, Marcel; Aker, Jenny C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There...

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Evaluating Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Network Analysis

Zickafoose, Joseph S.; Kimmey, Laura D.; Tomas, Amber; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Multidisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration has become a key feature of comparative effectiveness research … (CER), and CER funders have made promotion of these types of collaboration an implicit, and sometimes explicit, goal of … funding. An important challenge in evaluating CER programs is understanding if and how different forms of collaboration are …

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Pediatric Primary Care as a Component of Systems of Care.

Brown, Jonathan D. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

Systems of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances have historically not included linkages with primary care. As part of a special issue of Evaluation and Program Planning focused on redefining systems of care, this article proposes that the inclusion of primary care as...

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The Importance of Collaboration in Comparative Effectiveness Research

Kimmey, Laura D.; Rich, Eugene - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

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The Standard of Living in Latin America During the Twentieth Century

Bergés, Ame; Fitzgerald, Valpy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Assessing the economic development of Latin America during the twentieth century requires reliable estimates of living standards as measured by per capita income, life expectancy, and literacy. New comparable series for Latin America suggest that these three indicators made the greatest strides...

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Preparing for Productive Careers: Students' Participation In and Use of Career-Focused Learning Activities

Haimson, Joshua; Deke, John - Mathematica Policy Research - 2003

Helping students formulate career goals and prepare for successful careers continues to be an important educational objective pursued by many high schools. This report examines the challenges faced by a recent cohort of high school students as they sought to define and achieve their goals, the...

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What Do Effective Teachers of Inner-City Children have in Common?

Murnane, Richard J.; Phillips, Barbara R. - Mathematica Policy Research - 1981

This paper investigates the extent to which variables describing the classroom behavior of teachers and variables describing teachers' backgrounds and training explain differences in the effectiveness of teachers in improving the vocabulary skills of inner-city black children in four elementary...

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How Do Test Scores at the Floor and Ceiling Affect Value-Added Estimates?

Resch, Alexandra; Isenberg, Eric - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

Some educators are concerned that students with test scores at the bottom or top of the test score distribution will negatively affect the value-added estimates of teachers of those students.

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