TY - BOOK ID - 138150798 TI - Enhancing Human Capital at Scale AU - Agostinelli, Francesco. AU - Avitabile, Ciro. AU - Bobba, Matteo. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Education KW - Educational Investment KW - Educational Technology and Distance Education KW - Effective Schools and Teachers KW - Human Capital Investment KW - Pedalogical Practice KW - Primary Education KW - Remedial Education KW - Teacher Training UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138150798 AB - A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of mobile mentors on schooling outcomes crucially depends on their training. While a standard training modality in highly marginalized communities in Mexico generates 0 results, enhanced training yields sizable treatment effects on primary school children's cognitive, behavioral, and educational achievements. This difference cannot be explained by re medial educational activities or pedagogical support, but it can be reconciled with higher parental aspirations and investments. Evidence gathered on the subsequent national roll out of the intervention with enhanced training substantiates the scalability of the experimental design. ER -