Documentos e informes
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Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up ? The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries (Inglés)
Across six Sub-Saharan African countries, grade 4 students of teachers who were hired after a free primary education reform perform worse, on average, on language and math tests—statistically significantly...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10310 Fecha del documento: 16 de febrero de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.
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Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills in Low-Income Countries : Measurement and Associations with Schooling and Earnings (Inglés)
This paper assesses the reliability and validity of cognitive and socioemotional skills measures and investigates the correlation between schooling, skills acquisition, and labor earnings. The primary...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10309 Fecha del documento: 15 de febrero de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Danon,Alice Madeleine,Das,Jishnu,De Barros,Andreas,Filmer,Deon P.
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Does More Cash in Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Always Lead to Larger Impacts on School Attendance? (Inglés)
There is considerable evidence that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about what features...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 177995 Fecha del documento: 24 de noviembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Information, Knowledge, and Behavior : Evaluating Alternative Methods of Delivering School Information to Parents (Inglés)
This paper evaluates alternative approaches to disseminating information about a school-based management program in Indonesia. Low-intensity approaches, sending a letter from the principal or a colorful...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 177997 Fecha del documento: 24 de noviembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro,Filmer,Deon P.,Santoso
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Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs : A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness (Inglés)
This paper uses machine learning methods to identify key predictors of teacher effectiveness, proxied by student learning gains linked to a teacher over an academic year. Conditional inference forests...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9847 Fecha del documento: 15 de noviembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Nahata,Vatsal,Sabarwal,Shwetlena
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Heterogenous Teacher Effects of Two Incentive Schemes : Evidence from a Low-Income Country (Inglés)
This paper reports on a randomized evaluation of two teacher incentive programs, which were conducted in a nationally representative sample of 420 public primary schools in Guinea. In 140 schools, high-performing...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9652 Fecha del documento: 7 de mayo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barrera-Osorio,Felipe,Cilliers,Jacobus,Cloutier,Marie-Helene,Filmer,Deon P.
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How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently ? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric (Inglés)
Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9450 Fecha del documento: 21 de octubre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Angrist,Noam,Evans,David,Filmer,Deon P.,Glennerster,Rachel,Rogers,F. Halsey,Sabarwal,Shwetlena
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Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality (Inglés)
This study evaluates the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results from a two-phase randomized trial show that incentives for teachers led to modest average...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9382 Fecha del documento: 8 de septiembre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Sabarwal,Shwetlena
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Identifying Effective Teachers : Lessons from Four Classroom Observation Tools (Inglés)
Four different classroom observation instruments -- from the Service Delivery Indicators, the Stallings Observation System, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, and the Teach classroom observation...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9365 Fecha del documento: 25 de agosto de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Molina,Ezequiel,Wane,Waly
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Teacher Pay in Africa : Evidence from 15 Countries (Inglés)
Pay levels for public sector workers—and especially teachers—are a constant source of controversy. In many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, protests and strikes suggest that pay is low, while simple comparisons...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9358 Fecha del documento: 13 de agosto de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Evans,David K.,Yuan,Fei,Filmer,Deon P.
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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics (Inglés)
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9133 Fecha del documento: 30 de enero de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Artuc,Erhan,Cull,Robert J.,Dasgupta,Susmita,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Filmer,Deon P.,Gine,Xavier,Jacoby,Hanan G.,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kee,Hiau Looi,Klapper,Leora,Kraay,Aart C.,Loayza,Norman V.,Mckenzie,David J.,Ozler,Berk,Rao,Vijayendra,Rijkers,Bob,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Toman,Michael A.,Wagstaff, Adam,Woolcock,Michael
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Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging-Demand : Evidence from a Large-Scale Construction Program (Inglés)
This paper studies the impact of a preschool construction program and of two demand-side interventions in Cambodia. Within this context where other preschools are available, impacts are likely to differ...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9070 Fecha del documento: 2 de diciembre de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Berkes,Jan Lukas,Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Fukao,Tsuyoshi
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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa (Inglés)
In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8849 Fecha del documento: 7 de mayo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bold,Tessa,Filmer,Deon P.,Molina,Ezequiel,Svensson,Jakob
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Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World : Evidence from a School Construction Experiment (Inglés)
Interventions targeting early childhood hold promise for reducing the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Results from a randomized evaluation of a preschool construction program in Cambodia suggest...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 178014 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education~^!!^s Promise (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (Ruso)
Korea understood that education was the best way to pull itself out of economic misery, so it focused on overhauling schools and committed itself to educating every child, and educating them well. Coupled...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 120299 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Rogers,F. Halsey,Al-Samarrai,Samer,Bendini,Maria Magdalena,Beteille,Tara,Evans,David,Kivine,Mart,Sabarwal,Shwetlena,Valerio,Alexandria,Abu-Jawdeh,Malek,Larson,Bradley Robert,Shrestha,Unika,Yuan,Fei
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Combining Supply and Demand-side Interventions : Evidence from a Large Preschool Program in Cambodia : Impact Evaluation Final Report (Inglés)
The main purpose of this evaluation was to study the impact of a supply-side intervention aimed at improving the quality of community preschools, combined with a demand-side intervention aimed at stimulating...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 135635 Fecha del documento: 21 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Berkes,Jan Lukas,Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Fukao,Tsuyoshi
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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education~^!!^s Promise (Vol. 1 of 2) : World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise (Japonés)
Korea understood that education was the best way to pull itself out of economic misery, so it focused on overhauling schools and committed itself to educating every child, and educating them well. Coupled...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 120299 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Rogers,F. Halsey
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World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education~^!!^s Promise (Vol. 1 of 2) : World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise (Chino)
Korea understood that education was the best way to pull itself out of economic misery, so it focused on overhauling schools and committed itself to educating every child, and educating them well. Coupled...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 120299 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Rogers,F. Halsey
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Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) : Defining A New Macro Measure of Education (Inglés)
The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses—the average number of years of schooling in a population—is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8591 Fecha del documento: 27 de septiembre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Filmer,Deon P.,Rogers,F. Halsey,Angrist,Noam,Sabarwal,Shwetlena
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Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (Inglés)
This paper reports on a randomized experiment to investigate the long-term effects of a primary school scholarship program in rural Cambodia. In 2008, fourth-grade students in 207 randomly assigned schools...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8566 Fecha del documento: 23 de agosto de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barrera-Osorio,Felipe,De Barros,Andreas,Filmer,Deon P.