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Writing and analysis by C. Kirabo Jackson on education, human capital, public policy, and the economy.

C. Kirabo Jackson is an economist at Northwestern University studying how investments in children and education shape opportunity, inequality, and the broader economy.

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(March 2023) - This paper describes the results of a policy experiment conducted in coordination with the Nigerian government. In this experiment, some communities were randomly selected to receive a ...