Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 122 No. 3 2007
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
Abstract
This 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. The authors argue that resources alone may not be sufficient to improve educational outcomes. The authors study the impact of a remedial education programme which 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 also 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.
- DOI
- 10.1162/qjec.122.3.1235
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1235-1264
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref