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Impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in a low-income countryThis paper estimates the causal impact of teacher content knowledge on student achievement in Mozambique, a low-income country where a large share of fourth-graders fail to meet the minimum requirements of literacy and numeracy...
Education quality Mozambique EducationJournal Article
Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia: The Role of DecentralizationPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityBlog
What should Mozambique do with the revenue from natural gas projects? (Part II)At the beginning of this decade, large offshore natural gas fields were discovered in north-east Mozambique. Investment is now flowing into the country, and a boom in the natural gas sector is expected...
Extractives Mozambique RevenuesWorking Paper
Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchersThis paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores...
Achievement gap Education quality Human capitalWorking Paper
Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralizationWe examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization, and its effect on education quality...
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityBlog
Has the quality of Mozambique’s education been sacrificed at the altar of access?
Mozambique, in common with many other developing countries, has achieved impressive increases in access to education. Since 2000, the number of children attending primary school has more than doubled, as have the number of schools...
Education Education quality Access to education