After one year, public schools managed by private contractors in Liberia raised student learning by 60 percent, compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across contractors, and contracts authorized the largest contractor to push excess pupils and...

We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

Zum Schutz vor Corona musste das Lernen und Lehren an Hochschulen, Schulen sowie anderen Aus- und Weiterbildungseinrichtungen zeitweise nahezu vollständig ins Digitale überführt werden. Doch auch schon vor Corona hat kaum noch jemand ausschließlich analog, also ohne digitale Unterstützung,...