Documents & Reports
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Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology (English)
Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have had mixed results and the absence of household panel survey...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10672 Document Date: January 16, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: AlAzzawi,Shireen,Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Hlasny,Vladimir,Abanokova,Ksenia,Behrman,Jere R.
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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence : Evidence from a Large Public Works Program (English)
Many low, and middle-income countries have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that children from families who benefit from PWPs show increased...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 189837 Document Date: November 13, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Richard Freund,Favara,Marta,Lambert-Porter,Emma Catherine,Behrman,Jere R.
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Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa : How Much Does Sorting Matter (English)
Inequalities in learning opportunities arise from both household, and school-related factors. Although these factors are unlikely to be independent, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 186279 Document Date: August 10, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Paul Anand,Behrman,Jere R.,Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Jones,Edward Samuel
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Impacts of PROSPERA on Enrollment, School Trajectories, and Learning (English)
Many studies have demonstrated that Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, has substantial effects on educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9000 Document Date: September 9, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.,W. Parker,Susan,Todd,Petra Elizabeth
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa (English)
Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8622 Document Date: October 25, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anand,Paul,Behrman,Jere R.,Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Jones,Sam
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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives (English)
Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8353 Document Date: February 22, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jones,Sam,Behrman,Jere R.,Dang,Hai-Anh H.,Anand ,Paul
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Developing and testing supply- and demand-side interventions to improve kindergarten educational quality in Ghana (English)
The adoption of the 2004 national early childhood care and development (ECCD) policy highlighted access to quality kindergarten (KG) education as central to improving early childhood development and learning...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 128007 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wolf,Sharon,Tsinigo,Edward,Behrman,Jere R.,Aber,J. Lawrence,Bonarget,Alix
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Testing and scaling-up supply- and demand-side interventions to improve kindergarten educational quality in Ghana : SIEF midline report (English)
The quality preschool for Ghana (QP4G) study seeks to evaluate the impact of an in-service teacher training and parental awareness training in preschools on teachers, classrooms, and children in Ghana...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 128011 Document Date: July 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wolf,Sharon,Tsinigo,Edward,Behrman,Jere R.,Aber,J. Lawrence
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The contribution of increased equity to the estimated social benefits from a transfer program : an illustration from PROGRESA/oportunidades (English)
Most impact evaluations of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) focus on the returns to increased human capital investments that will be reaped largely or exclusively...
Report No.: WPS8026 Document Date: April 10, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alderman,Harold H.,Behrman,Jere R.,Tasneem,Afia
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Big numbers about small children : estimating the economic benefits of addressing under nutrition (English)
Different approaches have been used to estimate the economic benefits of reducing undernutrition and to estimate the costs of investing in such programs on a global scale. While many of these studies are...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 129181 Document Date: October 3, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alderman,Harold H.,Behrman,Jere R.,Puett, Chloe
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Out of school and out of work : a conceptual framework for investigating 'ninis' in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
The proportion of youth that is not in work or in school or ninis1 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remains high. The latest estimates show that about 19 per cent of 15-24 years olds in the region...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 102818 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.,De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E.,Székely, Miguel
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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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Early childhood development through an integrated program : evidence from the Philippines (English)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Early childhood development through an integrated program : evidence from the Philippines, conducted in 1999 in Philippines...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81304 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Armecin, Graeme,Behrman,Jere R.,Duazo, Paulita,Ghuman,Sharon,Gultiano, Socorro,King,Elizabeth M.,Lee, Nanette
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Evaluating preschool programs when length of exposure to the program varies a nonparametric approach (English)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Evaluating preschool programs when length of exposure to the program varies a nonparametric approach, conducted between the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81321 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.,Cheng,Yingmei,Todd,Petra Elizabeth
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The right skills for the job? Rethinking training policies for workers (English)
This book addresses the question of how to build and upgrade job relevant skills. Specifically, the authors focus on three types of training programs relevant for individuals who are leaving formal general...
Report No.: 70908 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Behrman,Jere R.,Robalino,David A.
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The World Bank research observer 24 (1) (English)
Rural poverty: old challenges in new context by Stefan, Dercon; evaluation in the practice of development by Martin, Ravallion; timing and duration of exposure in evaluations of social programs by Elizabeth...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 58349 Document Date: February 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dercon,Stefan,Ravallion,Martin,King,Elizabeth M.,Behrman,Jere R.,Claessens, Stijn,Beck,Thorsten,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Honohan,Patrick Thomas
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Timing and duration of exposure in evaluations of social programs (English)
Impact evaluations aim to measure the outcomes that can be attributed to a specific policy or intervention. While there have been excellent reviews of the different methods for estimating impact, insufficient...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 76792 Document Date: February 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.,King,Elizabeth M.
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Timing and duration of exposure in evaluations of social programs (English)
Impact evaluations aim to measure the outcomes that can be attributed to a specific policy or intervention. Although there have been excellent reviews of the different methods that an evaluator can choose...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4686 Document Date: August 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: King,Elizabeth M.,Behrman,Jere R.
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Early life nutrition and subsequent education, health, wage, and intergenerational effects (English)
This paper first summarizes recent research in developing countries that is surveyed in prominent Lancet articles and that reports, albeit based on relatively few systematic studies, substantial associations...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 57732 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.
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What is the real impact of schooling on age of first union and age of first parenting ? New evidence from Guatemala (English)
The ages of first union and of first parenting are of considerable interest, not only because of their implications for individual welfare and well-being over the life cycle, but also because they are...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4023 Document Date: October 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrman,Jere R.,Murphy, Alexis,Quisumbing,Agnes R.,Ramakrishnan, Usha,Yount, Kathyrn