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Enrollment in secondary > School inputs (eES) > McEwan 2015

Detailed Information

Country	Country: Honduras
GDP per capita	2.105
Context details	Villages served by a basic education center or a system of tutorial learning
Age	Grade 7

2. Intervention

Implementation year	2008
Implementer	Government
Duration (months)	12
Cost	N/A
Intervention details	Flexible teacher contracts and alternative recruitment; teachers were hired from local community and received 6-week training, monitoring and coaching

Evaluation design	Differences-in-differences
Cluster definition	School

Sample	Outcome	Test	Source Table	Observations	Statistics on Effects
Grade 7	Enrollment	N/A	N/A	1386	Coeff: -10.10; SE: 5.10; SD: 100.00

Study	McEwan, Patrick J., Erin Murphy-Graham, David Torres Irribarra, Claudia Aguilar, and Renán Rápalo. "Improving middle school quality in poor countries: Evidence from the Honduran Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 37, no. 1 (2015): 113-137.