- Why control groups are ethical and necessary in the Huffington Post: “the importance of knowing whether or not new methods add to student outcomes is so great that one could argue that it is unethical not to agree to participate in experiments in which one might be assigned to the control group”
- The value of getting parents involved in school, based on an RCT in France – the OUP blog has a summary of a paper forthcoming in ReStud: children of volunteer parents in selected classes were 15% less likely to be sanctioned for disciplinary reasons than children of volunteer parents in non-selected classes; truancy decreased by 25%, and the proportion who received honors increased by 10%.
- On the IDB Effectiveness blog, 5 steps for doing an education evaluation.
- Job opening: DIME is looking for a consultant to coordinate and work on impact evaluations in fragile and conflict states.
- The World Bank Research Group is hiring on the junior market this year! We have several positions available. The JOE listings for Impact Evaluation Economists (in the Research Dept.) and for Research Economists are now up.
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