Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of mobile mentors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates 0 results, enhanced...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655971620064204715/Enhancing-Human-Capital-at-Scale http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35545 |
| Summary: | A two-year randomized evaluation shows
that the effectiveness of mobile mentors on schooling
outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a
standard training modality in highly marginalized
communities in Mexico generates 0 results, enhanced training
yields sizable treatment effects on primary school
children’s cognitive, behavioral, and educational
achievements. This difference cannot be explained by re
medial educational activities or pedagogical support, but it
can be reconciled with higher parental aspirations and
investments. Evidence gathered on the subsequent national
roll out of the intervention with enhanced training
substantiates the scalability of the experimental design. |
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