This paper presents descriptive statistics from the first wave of the Syrian Refugee Life Study (S-RLS), which was launched in 2020. S-RLS is a longitudinal study that tracks a representative sample of...
The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20 percent prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm...
The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...
This brief summarizes worms: identifying impacts on education and health in the presence of treatment externalities in Kenya for the period 1998-99. Intestinal helminthes includes hookworm, roundworm...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Anemia and school participation, conducted between mid-December 2001 and September 2002 in India. The study observed the...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled The illusion of sustainability, conducted during the time period 1998 to 2001 in Kenya. The study observed that deworming...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Vocational education voucher delivery and labor market returns: a randomized evaluation among Kenyan youth, conducted during...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Incentives to learn, conducted between March 2001 and March 2002 school year in Kenya. The study observed the impact of merit...
The brief summarizes the spring cleaning: rural water impacts, valuation, and property rights institutions. The first two rounds of spring protection occurred in January-April 2005 and August-November...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Reshaping institutions : evidence on aid impacts using a pre analysis plan, conducted between 2005 and 2009 in Sierra Leone...
The authors evaluated the use of conditional cash transfers as an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention strategy to incentivize safe sex. An unblinded, individually randomised and controlled...
Youth unemployment is a problem in many developing countries, where labor market opportunities may be further squeezed by rapid rural migration into big cities, the cost of higher education and job seekers'...
Youth account for approximately 60 percent of the unemployed population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Seventy two percent of adolescents in the region live below the $2/day poverty line. Vocational education...
The authors report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya. Girls who scored well on academic exams received a cash grant and had school fees paid...