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Research Brief

May 29, 2024

Teach For Nigeria: Evaluating and Building on Success

To assist Teach For All (TFALL) network partners in understanding their performance, RAND researchers are evaluating TFALL programs in developing countries. The researchers conducted a two-year mixed-methods study of the Teach For Nigeria program.
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Mar 13, 2024

Teach For Nigeria Evaluation: Quantitative and Qualitative Study Findings

This report summarizes the findings from a two-year mixed methods evaluation of the effect of the Teach For Nigeria teacher training program on whole child development, perceptions of teaching quality, and the school community.
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Aug 25, 2023

ECOWAS: In Need of Help in Niger?

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu recently sought the Nigerian national legislature's backing for a possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to turn back a coup that toppled the government of Niger. An ECOWAS intervention would have a better chance of succeeding if other nations joined the effort.
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Jul 28, 2022

Playing Defense? Health Care in the Era of Covid

This paper presents evidence that the quality of health care interactions changed in important ways during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Jan 18, 2022

Competition and Governance in African Security Sectors: Integrating U.S. Strategic Objectives

This report examines U.S. institutional capacity-building programs for the security sectors of African partner governments and their potential role in strategic competition.
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Jan 4, 2022

RAND Review: January-February 2022

The cover story highlights the risks of geoengineering -- the large-scale manipulation of environmental processes to control climate. The Q&A with Jacqueline Burns sheds light on how her military experience informs her approach to research and analysis.
Journal Article

Nov 10, 2021

Money and My Mind: Maternal Cash Transfers and Mental Health

This paper documents important mental health spillovers in the context of a program that offered pregnant women modest cash incentives to use pre- and perinatal health care services.
Journal Article

Nov 10, 2021

Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes

Effort by health workers in developing countries has been the subject of recent attention, but the implications for health outcomes have remained a matter of conjecture. This paper provides new evidence about the returns to health worker effort.
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Nov 3, 2021

In Nigeria, Stillbirths And Newborn Deaths Increased During The COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 increased the number of stillbirths and newborn deaths in Nigeria.
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Sep 11, 2020

Are Counter Violent Extremism Interventions Effective?

Government efforts to counter the propaganda and radicalization that lead to violent extremism are becoming more common around the world, but there's little research on whether such programs work. It is critical to conduct more research to tease out which programs are most effective.
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Sep 9, 2020

Evaluating Programs That Counter Violent Extremism

Countries across the world have begun implementing Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) interventions to prevent or divert individuals from radicalizing to violence. Researchers examine what interventions are effective.
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Jun 22, 2020

Reducing Child Deaths in Nigeria Through Contingent Cash Transfers to Expectant Mothers

A contingent cash transfer program in Nigeria—in which expectant mothers were given $14 if they used prenatal, delivery, and postnatal services—led to a large increase in the use of such care and a substantial reduction in child deaths.

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