Documents & Reports
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A Metadata Schema for Data from Experiments in the Social Sciences (English)
The use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the social sciences has greatly expanded, resulting in newly abundant, high-quality data that can be reused to perform methods research in program evaluation...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10296 Document Date: February 6, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cavanagh,Jack,Fliegner,Jasmin Claire,Kopper,Sarah,Sautmann,Anja
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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation (English)
Multiple price lists are a convenient tool to elicit willingness to pay in surveys and experiments, but choice patterns such as “multiple switching” and “never switching” indicate high error rates. Existing...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10173 Document Date: September 13, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jack,B. Kelsey,McDermott,Kathryn,Sautmann,Anja
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Améliorer la Couverture Effective en Matière de Santé les Incitations Financières Fonctionnent-Elles? : Rapport De Recherche (French)
Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: July 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen
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Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work - Overview (English)
Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: July 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen
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Cómo Mejorar la Cobertura Efectiva de la Salud : ¿Funcionan los Incentivos Financieros? - Panorama General (Spanish)
Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: July 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen
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Adaptive Experiments for Policy Choice : Phone Calls for Home Reading in Kenya (English)
Adaptive sampling in experiments with multiple waves can improve learning for “policy choice problems” where the goal is to select the optimal intervention or treatment among several options. This paper...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10098 Document Date: June 23, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Esposito Acosta,Bruno Nicola,Sautmann,Anja
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Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work? (English)
Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 171612 Document Date: May 18, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Kandpal,Eeshani,Wagstaff, Adam,Friedman,Jed,Neelsen,Sven,Piattifuenfkirchen,Moritz Otto Maria Alfons,Sautmann,Anja,Shapira,Gil,Van De Poel,Ellen
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The Effects of Community Health Worker Visits and Primary Care Subsidies on Health Behavior and Health Outcomes for Children in Urban Mali (English)
Subsidized primary care and community health worker (CHW) visits are important demand side policies in the effort to achieve universal health care for children under five. Causal evidence on the effects...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9986 Document Date: March 25, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dean,Mark,Sautmann,Anja
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Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (Arabic)
This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 164920 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gatti,Roberta V.,Fan,Yuting,Hatefi,Arian,Nguyen, Ha,Sautmann,Anja,Sax,Joseph Martin,Wood,Christina A.
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Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (French)
This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 164920 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gatti,Roberta V.,Lederman,Daniel,Fan,Yuting,Hatefi,Arian,Nguyen, Ha,Sautmann,Anja,Sax,Joseph Martin,Wood,Christina A.
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Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19 (English)
This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 164920 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gatti,Roberta V.,Lederman,Daniel,Fan,Yuting,Hatefi,Arian,Nguyen, Ha,Sautmann,Anja,Sax,Joseph Martin,Wood,Christina A.
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Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence (English)
Using in-home health records for 1,763 children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The detailed data provide a window into parents’...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9542 Document Date: February 10, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blandhol,Christine,Sautmann,Anja
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Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children’s Health Care in Mali (English)
Sustained progress in reducing child mortality requires better care for children who are acutely ill. This paper studies how health care subsidies and health workers providing information on symptoms affect...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9486 Document Date: November 30, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sautmann,Anja,Brown,Samuel,Dean,Mark
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Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs ? (English)
This study conducted an experiment in Mali to test whether patients pressure doctors to prescribe medical treatment they do not necessarily need. The experiment varied patients’ information about a discount...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9482 Document Date: November 25, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lopez,Janet Carolina De Los Angeles,Sautmann,Anja,Schaner,Simone Gabrielle