支持校内外的学习：来自印度的实验证据

Although targeted educational interventions for primary school children in low-income countries have led to substantial improvements in learning, the extent of their effectiveness varies considerably across studies, raising questions about how to adapt them to different settings. This paper examines a novel primary education program that combines a conventional in-school targeted pedagogical intervention with an out-of-school study group initiative facilitated by the community. We use a cross-cutting randomized experiment design across 200 villages in Assam, India. Our results show that standalone implementation of either component has no significant effect on learning outcomes, but when the components are combined in the full program they improve children’s test scores in mathematics and language by 0.11 and 0.09 standard deviations, respectively. The analysis highlights that the combined program increases program awareness and take-up, thereby increasing program effectiveness.