German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 6

24 May 2024, 11:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

78. Learning together: Experimental evidence on parental involvement in education in Uganda

Arne Nasgowitz (Center for Applied Research at NHH (SNF))

24/05/2024, 11:00

Education and Health

Parallel Session

Parental involvement in education can be an important contribution to children’s learning, and a crucial complement to other inputs, such as text books. We here report from a field experiment in Uganda, where households were offered educational material and an action plan to engage them in the learning process of their primary-school child. Our findings show that the intervention increased the...

80. Evaluating the Effect of School Kits on Child Labour: Experimental Evidence from Ghana’s Cocoa Communities

Erwin Lefoll (ETH Zurich)

24/05/2024, 11:30

Impact Evaluation

Parallel Session

We assess the impact of distributing school kits as an educational intervention to reduce child labour in low-income, rural settings. To do so, we conducted a clustered Randomized Control Trial (RCT) across 64 primary schools, involving 1,743 children and their caregivers in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana. The school kits provided to children included a school uniform, a pair of shoes, a...

162. Is Patience Malleable via Educational Intervention? Evidence on the Role of Age in Field Experiments

Tim Kaiser (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) & IZA)

24/05/2024, 12:00

Education and Health

Parallel Session

We study the age-dependent malleability of patience via educational interventions designed to foster financial decision-making capabilities and to induce a more future-oriented mindset. We conduct a field experiment covering both youths and adults in Uganda and aggregate evidence from earlier experiments to study the generalizability of effects. In our field experiment, we find heterogenous...