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School Effects on Socioemotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment

By C. Kirabo Jackson, Shanette C. Porter, John Q. Easton, Alyssa Blanchard, and Sebastián Kiguel

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2020

Using value-added models on data from Chicago Public Schools, we find that high schools impact students' self-reported socioemotional development (SED) by enhancing social well-being and promoting hard work. Conditional on their test score impacts, school...

Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh

By Jean N. Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu Shonchoy, and Hassan Zaman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2021

Rapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology ca...