Documentos e informes
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections - Impact Evaluation Policy Brief (Inglés)
In Peru, business safety inspections, related to the risk of fire and collapse, which affect all businesses in the country, are characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. This can...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 175203 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections (Inglés)
In collaboration with the ministry of housing, construction, and sanitation and the municipality of Lima in Peru, the authors used a randomized experiment to test whether intensive monitoring of inspectors...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 175198 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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The Impact of Electronic Recording of Business Inspections on Compliance with Regulatory Standards and Inspectors’ Performance (Inglés)
In Peru, the business safety inspection process, a requirement to obtain an operating license, is characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. These inefficiencies disproportionally...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 175199 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31 (Inglés)
This paper reports the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9787 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Heckman,James J.,Pinto,Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes,Chang-Lopez,Susan M.,Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.,Walker,Susan,Wright,Amika S.
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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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Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments (Inglés)
Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning environment. This paper examines the effects of low-cost, group-based parental involvement...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9462 Fecha del documento: 29 de octubre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barrera-Osorio, Felipe,Gertler,Paul J.,Nakajima,Nozomi,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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School-Based Management and Learning Outcomes : Experimental Evidence from Colima, Mexico (Inglés)
A school-based management program was implemented Mexico in 2001 and continued until 2014. This national program, Programa Escuelas de Calidad, was considered a key intervention to improve learning outcomes...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8874 Fecha del documento: 10 de junio de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Garcia Moreno,Vicente A.,Gertler,Paul J.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Impact evaluation in practice (Portugués)
Impact evaluation figures among a broad range of complementary methods that support evidence-based policy. Although this book focuses on quantitative impact evaluation methods, it begins by placing them...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 59998 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Martinez,Sebastian,Premand,Patrick,Rawlings,Laura B.,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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La evaluación de impacto en la práctica (Español)
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Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 108270 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Martinez,Sebastian,Premand,Patrick,Rawlings,Laura B.,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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Impact evaluation in practice (Inglés)
Development programs and policies are typically designed to change outcomes such as raising incomes, improving learning, or reducing illness. Whether or not these changes are actually achieved is a crucial...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 108270 Fecha del documento: 13 de septiembre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Martinez,Sebastian,Premand,Patrick,Rawlings,Laura B.,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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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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Argentina - Can short term incentives change long term behavior? (Inglés)
After an economic crisis in Argentina in 2001 plunged millions of people there into poverty and worsened health outcomes, especially for women and children, the government crafted a new, national plan...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 100060 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Celhay,Pablo A.,Gertler,Paul J.,Giovagnoli,Paula,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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Argentina - Can short term incentives change long term behavior? : Argentina - Pueden los incentivos de corto plazo cambiar el comportamiento en el largo plazo? (Español)
After an economic crisis in Argentina in 2001 plunged millions of people there into poverty and worsened health outcomes, especially for women and children, the government crafted a new, national plan...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 100060 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Celhay,Pablo A.,Gertler,Paul J.,Giovagnoli,Paula,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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Long-run effects of temporary incentives on medical care productivity (Inglés)
The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7348 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Celhay,Pablo A.,Gertler,Paul J.,Giovagnoli,Paula,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.
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Rwanda - Will more people be tested for HIV if clinics are paid extra? (Inglés)
The world has made great strides toward ending AIDS. Yet the deadly disease remains a critical development challenge for poor countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has only 12 percent of the global population...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 94702 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: de Walclue, Damien,Gertler,Paul J.,Bautista-Arredlondlo, Sergio,Kwan,Ada Ting Ting,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.,Bizimana,Jean De Dieu,Binagwaho, Agnes,Condo,Umutesi Jeanine
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Learning what works for better programs and policies : Argentina - can performance payments improve newborn health? (Inglés)
Poor children face barriers to healthy development even before they are born. Their mothers may not have nutritious food or proper prenatal care, which can harm a baby’s brain development when it needs...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 95197 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Givagnoli, Paula,Martinez,Sebastian
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Learning what works for better programs and policies : Argentina - can performance payments improve newborn health? : Argentina - Pueden los pagos por desempeño mejorar la salud de los recién nacidos? (Español)
Poor children face barriers to healthy development even before they are born. Their mothers may not have nutritious food or proper prenatal care, which can harm a baby’s brain development when it needs...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 95197 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gertler,Paul J.,Givagnoli, Paula,Martinez,Sebastian
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Rwanda - Will more people be tested for HIV if clinics are paid extra? : Rwanda - Verser des primes aux cliniques augmentera-t-il le dépistage du VIH? (Francés)
The world has made great strides toward ending AIDS. Yet the deadly disease remains a critical development challenge for poor countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has only 12 percent of the global population...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 94702 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: de Walclue, Damien,Gertler,Paul J.,Bautista-Arredlondlo, Sergio,Kwan,Ada Ting Ting,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.,Bizimana,Jean De Dieu,Binagwaho, Agnes,Condo,Umutesi Jeanine
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Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda (Inglés)
Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a pay for performance...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 94644 Fecha del documento: 12 de diciembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio,Binagwaho, Agnes,Condo,Umutesi Jeanine,Gertler,Paul J.,Kwan,Ada Ting Ting,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.,Bizimana,Jean De Dieu,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.
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Cash for coolers : evaluating a large-scale appliance replacement program in Mexico (Inglés)
This paper evaluates a large-scale appliance replacement program in Mexico that from 2009 to 2012 helped 1.9 million households replace their old refrigerators and air conditioners with energy efficient...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92936 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Davis,Lucas William,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Gertler,Paul J.