Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282652 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16525
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a randomized experiment in 200 Bangladeshi villages, we evaluate the impact of an over-the-phone learning support intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers during Covid-19 school closures. Post-intervention, treated children scored 35% higher on a standardized test, and the homeschooling involvement of treated mothers increased by 22 minutes per day (26%). We also found that the intervention forestalled treated children's learning losses. When we returned to the participants one year later, after schools briefly reopened, we found that the treatment effects had persisted. Academically weaker children benefited the most from the intervention that only cost USD 20 per child.
Subjects: 
randomized experiment
primary education
school closure
COVID-19
homeschooling
telementoring
rural Bangladesh
JEL: 
C93
I21
I24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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