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publicationOctober 10, 2024

Impact Evaluations for Education Policy

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How can impact evaluation improve student learning outcomes and enhance education quality?

Covering early childhood to secondary education, this publication compiles a decade's worth of education-focused impact evaluations supported by the World Bank. The selection of studies featured in this compendium includes the latest rigorous evidence on education issues affecting learning in low- and middle-income countries. Each study provides policymakers and practitioners with guidance to enhance evidence-based decision-making.

Topics covered include performance-based incentives for schools and teachers, approaches to parental training, and strategies for improving student retention in secondary education. Find studies related to early childhood, schools & teachers, students & parents, or browse country-specific studies under each tab above.

 

Eligibility criteria:

The studies featured in must meet the following criteria: they must be rigorous (experimental or quasi-experimental), focus on education from early childhood development to grades K-12, and include results related to student learning outcomes. Additionally, studies are available online (preferably as publications or working papers) and were published from 2015 - 2024. Studies that are follow-ups of an original experimental impact evaluation are not included and for interventions covered by multiple studies, only the most recent publication is included.

By impact evaluation, we mean rigorous evaluation methods designed to measure the causal effect of a program by comparing outcomes between a group that received an intervention (or treatment group) and a group that did not receive the intervention (or the comparison group).

Submit papers for future editions of the compendium:

As we look to the future, we see an opportunity to translate this research into evidence-based policy and program design. Your contributions to the compendium can help us expand this vital research, enabling us to conduct more rigorous impact evaluations in diverse contexts, explore new and innovative approaches to improving learning outcomes, investigate long-term impacts of educational interventions, and develop and test scalable solutions that can be implemented across multiple countries and regions.

If you have a paper that meets the eligibility criteria referenced above that you¡¯d like featured in future iterations of this compendium, write to us at eduimpacteval@worldbank.org.

 

This compendium was produced by the World Bank¡¯s Education team, in close collaboration with Development Research GroupDevelopment Impact Group, and Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund.