Documentos e informes
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Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete : Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (Inglés)
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 109367 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda (Inglés)
This study looks at how a community event—adolescent women's economic and social empowerment -- and a family factor -- sibling sex composition—interact in shaping gender differences in preferences for...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7699 Fecha del documento: 7 de junio de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao,Joao,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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As good as the company they keep? : improving farmers’ social networks (Inglés)
Extension services have a history of being relatively expensive and not always effective. At the same time, studies show that informal social networks can be very beneficial in helping increase productivity...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 103850 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Leonard,Kenneth,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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The contribution of traditional herbal medicine practitioners to Kenyan health care delivery : results from community health-seeking behavior vignettes and a traditional herbal medicine practitioner survey (Inglés)
This study examines the role that Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners (THMPs) play in Kenya in the context of its human resources for health crisis. Two surveys were carried out to obtain evidence...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 65133 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lambert,John D. H.,Leonard,Kenneth,Mungai, Geoffrey,Omindi-Ogaja, Elizabeth,Gatheru, Gladys,Mirangi, Tabitha,Owara, Jennifer,Herbst,Christopher H.,Ramana, GNV,Lemiere,Christophe
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The quality of medical advice in low-income countries (Inglés)
This paper provides an overview of recent work on quality measurement of medical care and its correlates in four low and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4501 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Das,Jishnu,Hammer, Jeffrey,Leonard,Kenneth