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The impact of a computer based adult literacy program on literacy and numeracy : evidence from India Deshpande, Ashwini 44294 Desrochers, Alain 44295 Ksoll, Christopher 44296 Shonchoy, Abu S. 44297 379.4 JEL:O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development India Adult education Literacy Women Adult Literacy Program ICT application/pdf IDP000551_001 With over 700 million illiterate adults in the world, many governments have implemented adult literacy programs across the world, although typically with low rates of success partly because the quality of teaching is low. One solution may lie in the standardization of teaching provided by computer-aided instruction. We present the first rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of a computer-based adult literacy program. A randomized control trial study of TARA Akshar Plus, an Indian adult literacy program, was implemented in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. We find large, significant impacts of this computer-aided program on literacy and numeracy outcomes. We compare the improvement in learning to that of other traditional adult literacy programs and conclude that TARA Akshar Plus is effective in increasing literacy and numeracy for illiterate adult women. technical report Institute of Developing Economies　(IDE-JETRO) 2016-01-01 VoR application/pdf IDE Discussion Paper 551 IDE Discussion Paper https://ir.ide.go.jp/record/37630/files/IDP000551_001.pdf https://doi.org/10.20561/00037625 http://hdl.handle.net/2344/1499 https://ir.ide.go.jp/records/37630 eng インド Copyrights 日本貿易振興機構（ジェトロ）アジア経済研究所 / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) http://www.ide.go.jp