Title: The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India

Type Dataset Banerji, Rukmini, Berry, James, Shotland, Marc (2017): The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/19PPE7

Authors: Banerji, Rukmini (Pratham and ASER Centre) ; Berry, James (University of Delaware) ; Shotland, Marc (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ; Banerji, Rukmini (Pratham and ASER Centre) ; Berry, James (University of Delaware) ; Shotland, Marc (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab) ;

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Summary

Using a randomized field experiment in India, we evaluate the effectiveness of adult literacy and parental involvement interventions in improving children's learning. Households were assigned to receive either adult literacy (language and math) classes for mothers, training for mothers on how to enhance their children's learning at home, or a combination of the two programs. All three interventions had significant but modest impacts on childrens math scores. The interventions also increased mothers' test scores in both language and math, as well as a range of other outcomes reflecting greater involvement of mothers in their children's education.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/19PPE7

Subjects

• Social Sciences, Adult education, education inputs, field experiments
• CESSDA: Higher and further education, Compulsory and pre-school education

Dates

• Publication date: 2017
• Submitted: February 27, 2017
• Updated: July 27, 2022

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Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

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Format

electronic resource

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