Country | Ghana |
Title | Nudges to improve learning and gender parity: Supporting parent engagement and Ghana’s educational response to COVID-19 using mobile phones |
Evaluation design | Randomized control trial testing impacts of SMS messages to suggest activities that promote social-emotional development at home and to encourage engagement with remote instruction, variants of these messages that have a gender-parity focus, and the duration of these messages (3 months vs. 6 months) |
Main outcomes | Parental engagement with schooling and learning at home, perceptions around girls’ education, time use, learning, and aspirations & expectations |
Target group | Parents of children aged 5-15 years |
Team | Sharon Wolf (University of Pennsylvania), Elisabetta Aurino (Imperial College London), Isaac Osei-Akoto (University of Ghana), and Eunice Yaa Brimfah Ackwerh (World Bank) |
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