Documents & Reports
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Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements (English)
This study estimates the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experiments in informal settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9725 Document Date: July 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Coville,Aidan,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Yoshida,Susumu
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Productivity in Argentina Part B : Barriers to Productivity - New Evidence (English)
In Part A of this paper, authors reviewed the empirical evidence investigating the factors that affect total factor productivity and identified the main mechanisms by which each drives productivity. In...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 155540 Document Date: January 4, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gomez,Daniel,Scattolo,Gabriel Angel
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Financial inclusion for the rural poor using agent networks in Peru : measuring the impact of correspondent banking agents and trust workshops for conditional cash transfer beneficiaries (English)
The objective of the Financial Inclusion for the Rural Poor Using Agent Networks Project is to gain a better understanding of the impact of different strategies to promote financial inclusion among rural...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 107508 Document Date: April 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gertler,Paul J.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Chong,Alberto,Aldana,Ursula,Navajas,Camila,Ramshaw,Dylan,Paskov,Patricia,Ramos,Jaime
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The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment (English)
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6865 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Knack,Stephen,Xu,Lixin,Zou,Ben
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (English)
This brief summarizes the giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles in Uruguay for the period 1995. The author study the effect of pre-primary education on children's...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81335 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Promoting hand washing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions (English)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Promoting hand washing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions, conducted...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81451 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsoloa-Vidal, Alexandra
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What gets people to wash their hands? : ¿Qué hacer para que la gente se lave las manos? (Spanish)
Hand washing with soap and water is a simple way to reduce the spread of disease. It doesn't require complicated technology, it's usually affordable and even young children can do it. Yet many people don't...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 79748 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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What gets people to wash their hands? (English)
Hand washing with soap and water is a simple way to reduce the spread of disease. It doesn't require complicated technology, it's usually affordable and even young children can do it. Yet many people don't...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 79748 Document Date: July 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Promoting handwashing behavior in Peru : the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions (English)
This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical times in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale intervention that includes a mass media provincial...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6257 Document Date: November 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gertler,Paul J.,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America : evidence from a supply-demand framework, 1990-2010 (English)
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5921 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Acosta,Pablo Ariel,Cruces,Guillermo A.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Gasparini,Leonardo Carlos
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Peru - Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : scaling up handwashing behavior - findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey (English)
In response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56933 Document Date: August 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Orsola Vidal,Alexandra
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (English)
The authors study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4240 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Conscription and Crime (English)
The initiation in criminal activities is, typically, a young phenomenon. The study of the determinants of entry into criminal activities should pay attention to major events affecting youth. In many countries...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4037 Document Date: October 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Rossi,Martin Antonio,Schargrodsky,Ernesto S.
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Privatization in Latin America : myths and reality (English)
Privatization is under attack. Beginning in the 1980s, thousands of failing state-owned enterprises worldwide have been turned over to the private sector. But public opinion has turned against privatization...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34428 Document Date: March 15, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anuatti-Neto, Francisco,Barossi-Filho, Milton,Capra, Katherine,Chong, Alberto [editor],Fischer Barkan,Ronald David,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Garron, Mauricio,Gertler,Paul J.,Gledson De Carvalho,Antonio,Gutierrez,Rodrigo,Lopez de Silanes, Florencio [editor],Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio,Macedo, Robert,Machicado, Carlos,Pombo, Carlos,Ramirez, Manuel,Schargrodsky,Ernesto S.,Serra,Pablo J.,Sturzenegger,Federico,Torero,Maximo