From the abstract of a new study from the Center for Global Development: In the experiment, messages designed to lower the costs of speaking up were placed in a random sample of over 1,000 minibuses in Kenya. Analysis of comprehensive … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Our reviews have a tendency to discount stories of individuals, in favor of quantitative evidence about measurable outcomes. There is a reason for this, and it’s not that we only value quantitative evidence – it’s that (in our experience) qualitative … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Board member Tim Ogden writes, Mathematica Policy Research has conducted a multi-year randomized controlled trial of sixteen educational software programs (covering both reading and math) aimed at elementary and middle school students. The products selected were generally those that had … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Last November, we discussed the Alliance for Social Investing. I am now a member of the Alliance; an update on its second meeting (and the first one I attended), which took place at the beginning of April, is available via … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
I recently ran across a charity called Project AK-47 that declares: Over 100,000 kids are carrying machine guns in the armies of Southeast Asia. Instead of walking to school, they march to war. Instead of playing, they train to kill. … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Via Joanne Jacobs: a large randomized controlled trial found statistically effects of a volunteer tutoring program on reading skills. The effect size (.1-.16 standard deviations on 3 measures; insignificant on one other – see pg 13 of the full study) … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
