Documentos e informes
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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure? (Inglés)
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 185247 Fecha del documento: 16 de octubre de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Casaburi,Lorenzo,Reed,Tristan
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Effectiveness of Fertilizer Policy Reforms to Enhance Food Security in Kenya : A Macro-Microsimulation Analysis (Inglés)
Food security represents a key challenge in most Sub-Saharan African countries and in Kenya in particular where still a relevant share of the population lives below a minimum dietary energy consumption...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 178032 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Boulanger,Pierre,Dudu,Hasan,Emanuele Ferrari,Mainar Causape,Alfredo Jose,Ramos,Maria Priscila
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Public Financial Management and Fiscal Performance : Evidence from Panel Data Analyses (Inglés)
This paper attempts to assess the impact of the practical public financial management (PFM) dimensions on fiscal performance in 86 countries observed between 2005 and 2019. Based on augmented panel data...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 185237 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gui-Diby,Steve Loris
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Port Rail Connectivity and Agricultural Production : Evidence from a Large Sample of Farmers in Ethiopia (Inglés)
Agriculture important in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning foreign exchange. Transport connectivity has long been a crucial constraint in the region. In theory, railways have...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 145815 Fecha del documento: 27 de marzo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Iimi,Atsushi,Adamtei, Haileysus,Markland,James,Tsehaye,Eyasu
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Together we will : experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan (Inglés)
In many emerging democracies women are less likely to vote than men and, when they do vote, are likely to follow the wishes of male household and clan heads. We assess the impact of a voter awareness campaign...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 126639 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gine,Xavier,Mansuri,Ghazala
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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana (Inglés)
The authors study the role of traditional norms in land allocation and human capital investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that increased the land that children from matrilineal...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 122570 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: La Ferrara,Eliana,Milazzo,Annamaria
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Does corruption increase or decrease employment in firms? (Inglés)
The authors use representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 100193 Fecha del documento: 17 de agosto de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Beltran,Arlette
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Re-examining the relationship between domestic investment and foreign aid : does political stability matter? (Inglés)
While past studies had conflicting conclusions regarding the impact of foreign aid on growth and development of a nation, recent studies have tried to delve deeper into the question, ‘what makes aid work?’...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 100251 Fecha del documento: 23 de febrero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dutta, Nabamita,Mukherjee, Deepraj,Roy,Sanjukta
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (Inglés)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 100190 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (Inglés)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92933 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (Inglés)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product (GDP) shocks in destination countries...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92929 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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A new scenario framework for climate change research : scenario matrix architecture (Inglés)
This paper describes the scenario matrix architecture that underlies a framework for developing new scenarios for climate change research. The matrix architecture facilitates addressing key questions related...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102419 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: van Vuuren, Detlef P.,Kriegler, Elmar,O’Neill, Brian C.,Ebi,Kristie Lee,Riahi, Keywan,Carter, Timothy R.,Edmonds, Jae,Hallegatte,Stephane,Kram, Tom,Mathur, Ritu,Winkler,Harald Ernst
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Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries (Inglés)
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Although wage rigidities are altered by disinflation, in neither of...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92928 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Messina Granovsky,Julian S.,Sanz De Galdeano,Anna Maria
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The effect of absenteeism and clinic protocol on health outcomes : the case of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya (Inglés)
The authors show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse’s attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92925 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Pop-Eleches,Cristian,Thirumurthy,Harsha,Zivin,Joshua S. Graff
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka (Inglés)
A field experiment in Sri Lanka provides informal firms incentives to formalize. Information about the registration process and reimbursement of direct costs does not increase registration. Payments equivalent...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92926 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores (Inglés)
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92924 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Das,Jishnu,Dercon,Stefan,Habyarimana,James Paul,Krishnan,Pramila,Muralidharan,Karthik,Sundararaman,Venkatesh
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Barriers to household risk management : evidence from India (Inglés)
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of nonsystematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 92923 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cole,Shawn Allen,Gine,Xavier,Tobacman,Jeremy,Topalova,Petia B.,Townsend, Robert,Vickery,James
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Productivity effects of land rental market operation in Ethiopia : evidence from a matched tenant-landlord sample (Inglés)
As countries increasingly strive to transform their economies from agriculture-based into a diversified one, land rental will become of greater importance. It will thus be critical to complement research...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79465 Fecha del documento: 3 de diciembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Alemu,Tekie,Ali,Daniel Ayalew,Deininger,Klaus W.
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Heterogeneity in the allocation of external public financing : evidence from Sub-Saharan African post-MDRI countries (Inglés)
Using a homogenous subset of 18 Sub-Saharan African countries, all recipients of sizeable debt relief, this paper consistently accounts for debt relief across countries and analyzes heterogeneity in the...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79414 Fecha del documento: 22 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kinda,Tidiane,Le Manchec,Marie-Helene
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Microeconomic consequences and macroeconomic causes of foreign direct investment in Southern African economies (Inglés)
The authors use a new data set on firms in thirteen countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and comparators from other regions to identify the benefits and determinants of Foreign...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 79466 Fecha del documento: 4 de septiembre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Colin Xu, Lixin,Lederman,Daniel,Mengistae,Taye Alemu