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• Mass Media and Public Services : The Effects of Radio Access on Public Education in Benin

  Khemani, Stuti; Keefer, Philip (2011-02-01)

  Does radio access improve public service provision? And if so, does it do so by increasing government accountability to citizens, or by persuading households to take advantage of publicly-provided services? Prior research has argued that citizens with greater access to mass media receive greater benefits from targeted government welfare programs, but has not addressed these questions for public services such as in education and health. Using unique data from Benin, this paper finds that literacy rates among school children are higher in villages exposed to signals from a larger number of community radio stations. The effect is identified based on a "natural experiment" in the northern communes of Benin where within-commune variation in village access to radio stations is exogenous to observed and unobserved village characteristics. In contrast to prior research, the authors find that this media effect does not operate through government accountability: government inputs into village schools and household knowledge of government education policies are no different in villages with greater access to community radio. Instead, households with greater access are more likely to make financial investments in the education of their children.
• Active Labor Market Programs for Youth : A Framework to Guide Youth Employment Interventions

  Sanchez-Puerta, Maria Laura; Wuermli, Alice; Cunningham, Wendy (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012-08-13)

  Youth are three times more likely to be
 unemployed than adults, even in economies with strong
 economic growth. This note is a tool to provide policymakers
 and youth-serving organizations with a framework to better
 diagnose short- to medium-run constraints facing the stock
 of unemployed youth and to design evidence based youth
 employment interventions. The note only addresses youth
 employment; strategies to affect wages, productivity,
 underemployment, or job quality are not directly discussed.
 This note presents youth-oriented Active Labor Market
 Programs (ALMPs) that conform to one of two criteria. Each
 intervention either has been shown to have predominately
 positive impact, as measured by rigorous impact evaluations,
 or has weaker evidence of impact-rigorous evaluations with
 mixed evidence of impact or strong positive monitoring
 data-and is theoretically sound. Cost-effectiveness
 information is presented when available. The note focuses on
 programs that are appropriate to address constraints faced
 by youth from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• A Pedagogy of Holistic Media Literacy: Reflections on Culture Jamming as Transformative Learning and Healing

  Curriculum, Teaching and Learning; Miller, John; Megan, Boler; Stasko, Carly (2009-12-14)

  This qualitative study uses narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990, 2001) and self-study to investigate ways to further understand and facilitate the integration of holistic philosophies of education with media literacy pedagogies. As founder and director of the Youth Media Literacy Project and a self-titled Imagitator (one who agitates imagination), I have spent over 10 years teaching media literacy in various high schools, universities, and community centres across North America. This study will focus on my own personal practical knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1982) as a culture jammer, educator and cancer survivor to illustrate my original vision of a ‘holistic media literacy pedagogy’. This research reflects on the emergence and impact of holistic media literacy in my personal and professional life and also draws from relevant interdisciplinary literature to challenge and synthesize current insights and theories of media literacy, holistic education and culture jamming.