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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Main Authors:	Agostinelli, Francesco, Avitabile, Ciro, Bobba, Matteo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT REMEDIAL EDUCATION PEDALOGICAL PRACTICE PRIMARY EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT TEACHER TRAINING
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655971620064204715/Enhancing-Human-Capital-at-Scale http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35545

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spelling	okr-10986-355452022-09-01T00:09:45Z Enhancing Human Capital at Scale Agostinelli, Francesco Avitabile, Ciro Bobba, Matteo EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT REMEDIAL EDUCATION PEDALOGICAL PRACTICE PRIMARY EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT TEACHER TRAINING 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. 2021-05-06T14:20:52Z 2021-05-06T14:20:52Z 2021-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655971620064204715/Enhancing-Human-Capital-at-Scale http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35545 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9647 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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description	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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author	Agostinelli, Francesco Avitabile, Ciro Bobba, Matteo
author_facet	Agostinelli, Francesco Avitabile, Ciro Bobba, Matteo
author_sort	Agostinelli, Francesco
title	Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
title_short	Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
title_full	Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
title_fullStr	Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
title_full_unstemmed	Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
title_sort	enhancing human capital at scale
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655971620064204715/Enhancing-Human-Capital-at-Scale http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35545
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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale

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