Why Programs Fail: Lessons for Improving Public Service Quality from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Unsuccessful Teacher Training Program in Nepal [0.03%]
为何项目会失败——尼泊尔一项不成功的教师培训项目的混合评估方法及其对提高公共服务质量的启示分析报告
Julie Schaffner,Paul Glewwe,Uttam Sharma
Julie Schaffner
This study demonstrates rigorously that an at-scale government training program for secondary teachers in Nepal had little or no impact on student learning. It then documents five sets of weaknesses related to training uptake, training-sess...
Raissa Fabregas,Tite Yokossi
Raissa Fabregas
This paper estimates the impact of access to mobile money services on local economic activity. The analysis combines data from the early expansion of the mobile agent network in Kenya with a local-level measure of economic performance proxi...
Mark Budolfson,Francis Dennig,Marc Fleurbaey et al.
Mark Budolfson et al.
How much should the present generations sacrifice to reduce emissions today, in order to reduce the future harms of climate change? Within climate economics, debate on this question has been focused on so-called "ethical parameters" of soci...
Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Program [0.03%]
青少年时期的社交保护和基础认知技能：来自一项大规模公共工作计划的证据
Richard Freund,Marta Favara,Catherine Porter et al.
Richard Freund et al.
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that children from families who benefit from PWPs show increased foundational cognitive skills. The ...
Muhammad Farhan Majid,Jere R Behrman
Muhammad Farhan Majid
This paper studies the effects of minimum wages in Indonesia around the time of birth on child height-for-age Z scores (HAZ) up to five years of age. Using variations in annual fluctuations in real minimum wages in different Indonesian prov...
Cash Transfers, Microentrepreneurial Activity, and Child Work: Evidence from Malawi and Zambia [0.03%]
基于马拉维和赞比亚的经验证据看现金转移、微型企业活动及儿童工作关系
Jacobus de Hoop,Valeria Groppo,Sudhanshu Handa
Jacobus de Hoop
Cash transfer programs are rapidly becoming a key component of the social safety net of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary aim of these programs is to help households improve their food security and smooth consumption during ...
Lasse Brune,Jason T Kerwin,Qingxiao Li
Lasse Brune
Temptation plays a key role in theoretical work on spending and saving in developing countries. The limited empirical evidence on its importance, however, suggests that cash transfers do not induce increases in temptation spending. This pap...
Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh [0.03%]
关于环境健康风险、分娩方式和行为改变的信息需求及相应的行为转变——基于孟加拉国宋卡尔的证据
Alessandro Tarozzi,Ricardo Maertens,Kazi Matin Ahmed et al.
Alessandro Tarozzi et al.
Millions of villagers in Bangladesh are exposed to arsenic by drinking contaminated water from private wells. Testing for arsenic can encourage switching from unsafe wells to safer sources. This study describes results from a cluster random...
John W McArthur,Jeffrey D Sachs
John W McArthur
How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformati...
Sveta Milusheva
Sveta Milusheva
Short-term human mobility has important health consequences, but measuring short-term movement using survey data is difficult and costly, and use of mobile phone data to study short-term movement is only possible in locations that can acces...