educational outcomes
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Rolling back Progresa: What happened when Mexico’s landmark cash transfer programme ended?
The sudden rollback of Mexico’s landmark conditional cash transfer programme—Prospera, formerly Progresa—affected boys’ educational outcomes disproportionately, offering lessons for policy retrenchment worldwide.
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Using cash transfers to improve child health in low- and middle-income countries
Conditional cash transfers improve child health outcomes in the short term and can improve educational outcomes in the longer term
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Data inaccuracy distorting reality: Evidence from schools in India
Wide-spread cheating inflates students’ achievements in India, but technology-aided solutions can improve data accuracy in standardised testing