Documents & Reports
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Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries (English)
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6779 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Behrman,Jere R.,Araujo,Maria Caridad,Azuero,, Rodrigo,Bernal,Raquel,Bravo, David,Lopez Boo,Florencia,Macours,Karen,Marshall, Daniela,Paxson,Christina H.,Vakis,Renos
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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador (English)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador, conducted...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81210 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Araujo,Maria Caridad,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Local inequality and project choice : theory and evidence from Ecuador (English)
This paper provides evidence consistent with elite capture of Social Fund investment projects in Ecuador. Exploiting a unique combination of data-sets on village-level income distributions, Social Fund...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3997 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Araujo,Maria Caridad,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Ozler,Berk
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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador (English)
The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned"...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3930 Document Date: June 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Araujo,Maria Caridad
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Mongolia - Assessment of the child money program and properties of its targeting methodology (Mongolian)
The main purpose of this document is to contribute to the policy discussion around the Child Money Program (CMP), launched in 2005. Concerns were raised on the rapid growth, and large coverage of the CMP...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 36018 Document Date: April 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Araujo,Maria Caridad
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Mongolia - Assessment of the child money program and properties of its targeting methodology : Mongolia : assessment of the Child Money Program and properties of its targeting methodology (English)
The main purpose of this document is to contribute to the policy discussion around the Child Money Program (CMP), launched in 2005. Concerns were raised on the rapid growth, and large coverage of the CMP...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 36018 Document Date: April 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Araujo,Maria Caridad
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Poverty and modern utility services in Guatemala (English)
As part of the wider infrastructure sector reform movement in Latin America, Guatemala took major steps to allow private sector participation and promote the development of competition. The national telecommunications...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 29282 Document Date: December 13, 2001 Author: Araujo,Maria Caridad,Foster,Vivien