Documentos e informes
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Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements (Inglés)
This study estimates the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experiments in informal settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9725 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Coville,Aidan,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Yoshida,Susumu
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Productivity in Argentina Part B : Barriers to Productivity - New Evidence (Inglés)
In Part A of this paper, authors reviewed the empirical evidence investigating the factors that affect total factor productivity and identified the main mechanisms by which each drives productivity. In...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 155540 Fecha del documento: 4 de enero de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gomez,Daniel,Scattolo,Gabriel Angel
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Financial inclusion for the rural poor using agent networks in Peru : measuring the impact of correspondent banking agents and trust workshops for conditional cash transfer beneficiaries (Inglés)
The objective of the Financial Inclusion for the Rural Poor Using Agent Networks Project is to gain a better understanding of the impact of different strategies to promote financial inclusion among rural...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 107508 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Chong,Alberto,Aldana,Ursula,Navajas,Camila,Ramshaw,Dylan,Paskov,Patricia,Ramos,Jaime
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The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment (Inglés)
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6865 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Knack,Stephen,Xu,Lixin,Zou,Ben
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (Inglés)
This brief summarizes the giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles in Uruguay for the period 1995. The author study the effect of pre-primary education on children's...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81335 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Promoting hand washing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions (Inglés)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Promoting hand washing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions, conducted...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81451 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsoloa-Vidal, Alexandra
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What gets people to wash their hands? : ¿Qué hacer para que la gente se lave las manos? (Español)
Hand washing with soap and water is a simple way to reduce the spread of disease. It doesn't require complicated technology, it's usually affordable and even young children can do it. Yet many people don't...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79748 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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What gets people to wash their hands? (Inglés)
Hand washing with soap and water is a simple way to reduce the spread of disease. It doesn't require complicated technology, it's usually affordable and even young children can do it. Yet many people don't...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79748 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Promoting handwashing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions (Inglés)
This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical times in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale intervention that includes a mass media provincial...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6257 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010 (Inglés)
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5921 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Acosta,Pablo Ariel,Cruces,Guillermo A.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gasparini,Leonardo Carlos
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Peru - Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : scaling up handwashing behavior - findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey (Inglés)
In response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 56933 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (Inglés)
The authors study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4240 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Conscription and Crime (Inglés)
The initiation in criminal activities is, typically, a young phenomenon. The study of the determinants of entry into criminal activities should pay attention to major events affecting youth. In many countries...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4037 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Rossi,Martin Antonio,Schargrodsky,Ernesto S.
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Privatization in Latin America : myths and reality (Inglés)
Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But public opinion has turned against privatization...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 34428 Fecha del documento: 15 de marzo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Anuatti-Neto, Francisco,Barossi-Filho, Milton,Capra, Katherine,Chong, Alberto [editor],Fischer Barkan,Ronald David,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Garron, Mauricio,Gertler,Paul J.,Gledson De Carvalho,Antonio,Gutierrez,Rodrigo,Lopez de Silanes, Florencio [editor],Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio,Macedo, Robert,Machicado, Carlos,Pombo, Carlos,Ramirez, Manuel,Schargrodsky,Ernesto S.,Serra,Pablo J.,Sturzenegger,Federico,Torero,Maximo