Documentos e informes
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Reflections of employers' gender preferences in job ads in India : an analysis of online job portal data (Inglés)
Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8379 Fecha del documento: 26 de marzo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chowdhury,Afra Rahman,Areias,Ana Carolina,Imaizumi,Saori,Nomura,Shinsaku,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Asymmetric information on noncognitive skills in the Indian labor market : an experiment in online job portal (Inglés)
This paper examines the impact of noncognitive (socio-emotional) skills on job market outcomes, using a randomized control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8378 Fecha del documento: 26 de marzo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Nomura,Shinsaku,Imaizumi,Saori,Areias,Ana Carolina,Chowdhury,Afra Rahman
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Enhancing school quality in Vietnam through participative and collaborative learning (Inglés)
The Vietnam Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program incorporates and integrates several innovative and globally recognized practices including: (a) Participative and collaborative learning; (b) Self-paced learning...
Tipo de documento: Otro estudio sobre educación Número del informe: 118675 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Parandekar,Suhas D.,Yamauchi,Futoshi,Ragatz,Andrew B.,Sedmik,Elisabeth,Sawamoto,Akiko
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Toward labor market policy 2.0 : the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India (Inglés)
Economists and other social scientists are increasingly using big data analytics to address longstanding economic questions and complement existing information sources. Big data produced by online platforms...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7966 Fecha del documento: 9 de febrero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Nomura,Shinsaku,Imaizumi,Saori,Areias,Ana Carolina,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Alternative and inclusive learning in the Philippines (Inglés)
The Philippines has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of basic education in recent decades. Even so, despite significant improvements in primary and secondary education, the number of students...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: AUS14891 Fecha del documento: 10 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Igarashi,Takiko,Tenazas,Nicholas M.,Tiongco,Marites Manlangit
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Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event : the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia (Inglés)
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7627 Fecha del documento: 11 de abril de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Larson,Donald F.
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Wage dynamics, turnover, and human capital : evidence from adolescent transition from school to work in the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper examines wage dynamics and turnover using tracking data of adolescents from the Philippines. The analysis uses individual test scores in grade 6 to proxy abilities. The empirical results show...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7184 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Philippines - Making education spending count for the children of autonomous Muslim region of Mindanao : public expenditure and institutional review for ARMM basic education (Inglés)
Children in the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have long suffered from the effects of underdevelopment, neglect, and conflict. The proportion of families in poverty in ARMM is the highest...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 100444 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Nixon,Hamish Antony David,Mariano,Maria Alma P.,Yamauchi,Futoshi,Tordecilla, Roy,Esguerra, Pinky,Capili,Miro Frances,Belisario, Carole,Neri, Lea
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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture (Inglés)
This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7138 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Huang, Jikun,Otsuka,Keijiro,Wang,Xiaobing,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Roads, labor markets, and human capital : evidence from rural Indonesia (Vol. 1of1) (Inglés)
This paper uses household panel data from rural Indonesia to examine the impact of road quality on labor supply and wages. First, road projects are found to increase transportation speed. Second, the empirical...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7139 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in agriculture : evidence from Indonesia (Inglés)
This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6789 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Population pressures, migration, and the returns to human capital and land : insights from Indonesia (Inglés)
Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6790 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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An alternative estimate of school-based management impacts on students' achievements : evidence from the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper aims to estimate the impact of school-based management on students' test scores in the Philippines. Estimation results using double differencing combined with propensity score matching show...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6747 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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School Resource and Performance Inequality : evidence from the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6748 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Parandekar,Suhas D.,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (Inglés)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines, conducted...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 81369 Fecha del documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper examines the impact of a large supply-side education intervention in the Philippines, the Third Elementary Education Project, on students' national achievement test scores. The authors find...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79456 Fecha del documento: 3 de diciembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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School quality, labor markets and human capital investments : long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6247 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (Inglés)
This paper examines the impact of a large supply-side education intervention in the Philippines, the Third Elementary Education Project, on students' national achievement test scores. It finds that the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6246 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Long-term impacts of global food crisis on production decisions : evidence from farm investments in Indonesia (Inglés)
Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6065 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Nose,Manabu,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Prenatal seasonality, child growth, and schooling investments : evidence from rural Indonesia (Inglés)
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. There is seasonality in birth weight: this measure is significantly higher immediately after the...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79371 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yamauchi,Futoshi