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  • The Impact of an Adolescent Girls Employment Program (English)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2014 paper entitled, The impact of an adolescent girls employment program : the EPAG project in Liberia, conducted between between 2010 and 2011 in Liberia. The...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90358 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Adoho, Franck , Chakravarty, Shubha , Korkoyah,

  • Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program (English)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2013 paper entitled, Testing information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program, conducted between between 2009 and 2010 in India. The study observed...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90356 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ravallion,Martin,Van De Walle,Dominique,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva, Margai, Rinku

  • Women's Empowerment in Action : evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa (English)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2014 paper entitled, Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa, conducted between between June and September 2008 in Uganda...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90360 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bandiera,Oriana,Buehren,Niklas,Burgess,Robin Stuart L.,Goldstein,Markus P.,Gulesci,Selim,Rasul,Imran,Sulaiman,Munshi

  • Community-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania : results from a randomized trial (English)

    This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study entitled, Community-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania : results from a randomized trial, conducted since 2010 in Tanzania...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90352 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Evans, David K.,Hausladen, Stephanie,Kosec,Katrina L.,Reese,Natasha Elizabeth

  • The impact of vocational training for the unemployed : experimental evidence from Turkey (English)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2014 paper entitled, The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed : Experimental Evidence from Turkey, conducted between between 2010 and 2011 in Turkey...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90359 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Hirshleifer,Sarojini,Mckenzie,David J.,Ridao-Cano,Cristobal

  • The Heterogeneous Effects of HIV Testing (English)

    This brief summarizes the updates from the 2014 paper entitled, The heterogeneous effects of HIV testing, Welfare impacts of rural electrification : evidence from Vietnam, conducted between between 2009...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90357 Document Date: September 2, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baird, Sarah , Gong, Erick , McIntosh, Craig , O

  • Advancing women's sexual and reproductive health (English)

    Gender equality cannot be achieved until women have control over their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) decisions, including those that determine their risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 89997 Document Date: August 7, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mccleary-Sills,Jennifer Diane,Parsons,Jennifer Gail

  • Gender-based violence prevention : lessons from World Bank impact evaluations (English)

    Gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread, with adverse repercussions for individual wellbeing and development more broadly. Yet, knowledge on what works to prevent GBV is limited. Drawing on lessons from...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 87854 Document Date: April 30, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kiplesund,Sveinung,Morton,Matthew H.

  • Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study (English)

    This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study, conducted during the time...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81389 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chang, Susan,Gertler,Paul J.,Grantham-Mcgregor,Sally,Heckman,James J.,Pinto,Rodrigo Ribeiro Antunes,Vermeersch,Christel M. J.,Walker, Susan,Zanolini, Arianna

  • Teacher performance pay : experimental evidence from India (English)

    This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Teacher performance pay : experimental evidence from India, conducted in August 2005 in India. The study observed the impact...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81471 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Muralidharan,Karthik,Sundararaman,Venkatesh

  • The impact of cash transfers on school enrollment : evidence from Ecuador (English)

    This brief summarizes the impact of cash transfers on school enrollment: evidence from Ecuador for the year 2003. This paper presents evidence about the impact on school enrollment of a program in Ecuador...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81500 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Oosterbeek,Hessel,Ponce,Juan,Schady,Norbert Rudiger