How do meta-beliefs about educational performance affect perseverance and student performance in low-income contexts? We investigate this question in a lab-in-the-field experiment designed to disentangle meta-beliefs about the nature of ability and personal efficacy through video interventions. We study the effects of these interventions on the decision to exert effort, academic performance, and wellbeing among primary school students in Malawi.

Researchers examine whether exposure to role models through a video documentary can change individual’s aspirations and their future-oriented investments, such as investments in their children’s education.

Researchers test whether it is possible to nudge small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to use formal hiring channels and whether an improvement in technology will formalise hiring techniques.