N Angrist, P Bergman, C Brewster… - Available at SSRN …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools for over 1.6 billion children, with potentially long-term consequences. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on …
Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental …
E Bettinger, N Cunha, G Lichand… - University of Zurich …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right …
Written by leading experts in early childhood, economics, psychology, public health, philanthropy, and more, chapters and commentaries shine light on how to effectively use …
Billions of dollars are invested in opt-in, educational resources to accelerate students' learning. Although advertised to support struggling, marginalized students, there is no …
G Lichand, J Christen, EV Egeraat - npj Science of Learning, 2024 - nature.com
Did the dramatic learning losses from remote learning in the context of COVID-19 stem at least partly from schools having overlooked students' socio-emotional skills—such as their …
S Wolf, G Lichand - npj Science of Learning, 2023 - nature.com
Whether SMS-based nudge interventions can increase parent engagement and improve child learning outcomes across diverse contexts such as rural West Africa is unknown. We …
CA Asher, E Scherer, JS Kim… - Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We leverage log data from an educational app and two-way text message records from over 3,500 students during the summers of 2019 and 2020 and in-depth interviews in Spanish …
The impacts of COVID-19 reach far beyond the hundreds of lives lost to the disease; in particular, the pre-existing learning crisis is expected to be magnified during school …