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Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons

  • Michael Kremer
American Economic Review
vol. 93, no. 2, May 2003
(pp. 102-106)
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Abstract

This paper reviews recent randomized evaluations of educational programs in developing countries, including programs to increase school participation, to provide educational inputs, and to reform education. It then extracts some lessons for education policy and for the practice and political economy of randomized evaluations.

Citation

Kremer, Michael. 2003. "Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons ." American Economic Review, 93 (2): 102-106. DOI: 10.1257/000282803321946886

JEL Classification

  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
  • I28 Education: Government Policy