Telementoring and Homeschooling During School Closures: a Randomised Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Hashibul Hassan, Asad Islam, Abu Siddique and Liang Wang

The Economic Journal, 2024, vol. 134, issue 662, 2418-2438

Abstract: Using a randomised 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 standardised 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 USD20 per child.

Date: 2024
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