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Bi Project Policy Area: Gender

BI Project

Social Multipliers at Work: Improving Children’s Outcomes Through Aspirations and Role Models

🇳🇮 Nicaragua

Every year, governments spend large amounts of resources on development programs that aim to change poor households’ behaviors and attitudes toward investment in the education, health, and nutrition of their children as a way to end the cycle of poverty. One key mechanism that can achieve this is working to raise aspirations. But how do you do that in practice? In this project, together with Karen Macours of the Paris School of Economics and the Ministry of Family in Nicaragua, we find that…

Institution: World Bank

Team: eMBeD, Mind Behaviour and Development team

EducationGender