Documentos e Relatórios

Is Investment in Preprimary Education Too Low ? Lessons from (Quasi) Experimental Evidence across Countries (Inglês)

A large body of evidence suggests sizeable improvements in cognitive and social-emotional skills and subsequent educational attainment following preprimary education interventions as well as increases...

Poor Expectations : Experimental Evidence on Teachers~^!!^ Stereotypes and Student Assessment : Poor Expectations : Experimental Evidence on Teachers' Stereotypes and Student Assessment (Inglês)

Do teachers’ stereotypes of social class bias their assessment of students? This study uses a lab-in-the-field experiment among primary school teachers to test whether they are biased against poor students...

Lessons from Parenting Programs in Early Childhood (Inglês)

Parenting programs are early childhood interventions focused on engaging parents to provide in-home stimulation to infants and toddlers with the hope of improving young children’s cognitive and motor development...

Uganda : How Long do the Effects of Cash Grants Last? (Inglês)

Training vouchers and microfinance tools are often used by multilateral organizations, non-governmental organizations, and governments to increase employment and business oppor¬tunities in low- and middle-income...

Can Job Training Decrease Women's Self-Defeating Biases? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria (Inglês)

Gender-based occupational segregation – where women are concentrated in low-paid or low-profit sectors – is a non-trivial source of the gender wage gap worldwide, accounting for as much as 50 percent of...

Designing targeted business trainings for impact : insights from a women entrepreneurs' program in Tanzania (Inglês)

Business training in low-income countries have scarcely shown impacts on revenues and profits, especially for female entrepreneurs. In this study, we test two kinds of trainings, one basic in-class training...

The profits of wisdom : the impacts of a business support program in Tanzania (Inglês)

Business training programs in low-income settings have shown limited, if any, impacts on firm revenues and profits, particularly for female entrepreneurs. This paper uses a randomized design to compare...

The Role of Skills and Gender Norms in Sector Switches : Experimental Evidence from a Job Training Program in Nigeria (Inglês)

Industrialization and structural change entails shifting workers from low skill to high skill occupations, and in emerging economies a number of constraints may impede sectoral switches among workers...

A human-rights based approach to the economic security of older people in Moldova (Inglês)

A human-rights based approach to the economic security of older people in Moldova : Abordarea securitătii economice a persoanelor vârstnice în Moldova prin prisma drepturilor omului (Romeno)

The fiscal cost of weak governance : evidence from teacher absence in India (Inglês)

The relative return to strategies that augment inputs versus those that reduce inefficiencies remains a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using a new nationally-representative...

A human rights-based approach to the economic security of older people in Moldova : A Human Rights-Based Approach for the Economic Security of the Elderly in Moldova (Inglês)

The aging challenge in Moldova is pressing. The average age is rising at a much more rapid rate in Moldova than in neighboring countries, and the size of the population is shrinking. The objective of the...

The fiscal cost of weak governance : evidence from teacher absence in India (Inglês)

The relative return to input-augmentation versus inefficiency-reduction strategies for improving education system performance is a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using...

Quality and accountability in healthcare delivery : audit evidence from primary care providers in India (Inglês)

This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative...

Citizens and service delivery : assessing the use of social accountability approaches in the human development sectors (Inglês)

Efforts by governments, donors, and civil society alike to improve governance, accountability, and development results on the ground have heightened attention to the idea that citizens can contribute to...