Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Published By: | Published Date: December, 01 , 2005This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community to teach basic literacy and numeracy skills to children lagging behind in government schools. A computer-assisted learning programme provided each child in the fourth grade with two hours of shared computer time per week, in which students played educational games that reinforced mathematics skills.
Author(s): Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Leigh Linden | Posted on: Feb 01, 2006 | Views(3606) | Download (1193)