Current Projects

Assessing the impact of School Health and Nutrition Programmes on Educational achievement in Iloilo, the Philippines. Funding: Save the Children. Mar 2005-Sep 2007

The impact of multiple micronutrient supplementation on educational achievement in Bangladesh. Funding: Sight and Life Foundation. July 2007 -

Strengthening Open Distance Flexible Learning systems to increase education access and attainment for young people in high HIV-prevalence SADC countries. With Pat Pridmore and Chris Yates. Funding: DFID. April 2007 - March 2010

Family and individual determinants of school success after school fee abolition in Tanzania. Jan 2002 - Dec 2008

Developing measures of reading ability and classroom behaviour for use in multi-country evaluations. Funding: World Bank. June 2006 -

Developing the empirical and conceptual basis of life skills education. Funding: Partnership for Child Development. July 2007 -

Experimental evidence on child health and long-run educational outcomes in Kenya. With Ted Miguel and Michael Kremer. Funding: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.. Jan 2005 - Dec 2009.

Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) in schools: randomized controlled trial of the impact of IPT on malaria, anaemia and education amongst schoolchildren in Western Kenya. With Simon Brooker, Sian Clarke, Benson Estambale. Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jan 2005 - .

Long term impact of additional teachers on educational achievement in Kenya. With Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas. Funding: World Bank. Oct 2005 -