Documentos e Relatórios
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Texting Parents about Early Child Development : Behavioral Changes and Unintended Social Effects (Inglês)
Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a promising channel to deliver parenting information at large scale. This paper tests whether...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS9492 Data do documento: 9 de dezembro de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Barrera,Oscar,Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Report : Long-term Evaluation of Atencion a Crisis Interventions (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglês)
In recent years, there has been renewed attention on policies to enhance the income generating capacity and productivity of the poor (World Bank, 2012). Since both skills and capital can limit productive...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 145957 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos,Premand,Patrick
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Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World : Evidence from a School Construction Experiment (Inglês)
Interventions targeting early childhood hold promise for reducing the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Results from a randomized evaluation of a preschool construction program in Cambodia suggest...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 178014 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2019 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Combining income generation with Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs to cope with severe weather conditions (Inglês)
Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 123791 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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How Well Do We Measure Non-Cognitive Skills in Developing Countries? Initial Lessons from STEP Skills Measurement Program (Inglês)
Standard skills indicators leave an information gap on workforce skill characteristics, job skill requirements, and quality of worker-job matches that prevents policymakers from making informed and timely...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 123792 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Laajaj,Rachid,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Macours,Karen,Rubio-Codina,Marta,Vakis,Renos
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Adoption of Improved Seeds and Land Allocation : Evidence from DRC (Inglês)
There is a resurgent interest in agricultural input subsidies as instruments to increase adoption of yield increasing technologies in developing countries. But what is the impact of such technologies on...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 150140 Data do documento: 3 de julho de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bernard,Tanguy,Lambert,Sylvie,Macours,Karen,Vinez,Margaux Laurence
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Measuring skills in developing countries (Inglês)
Measures of cognitive, noncognitive, and technical skills are increasingly used in development economics to analyze the determinants of skill formation, the role of skills in economic decisions, or simply...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS8000 Data do documento: 8 de março de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Laajaj,Rachid,Macours,Karen
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Sustaining impacts when transfers end : the role of women leaders for aspirations and human capital investments (Inglês)
Sustainability of short-term interventions may depend on whether they manage to change families’ attitudes towards the future and related social norms. This investigation shows that role female models...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 121569 Data do documento: 17 de setembro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos
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Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6779 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2014 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: 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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Cambodia - Challenges in scaling up preschools : Cambodge - Les défis liés au développement des écoles maternelles à grande echelle (Francês)
This bulletin showcases a World Bank supported study in Cambodia, where researchers set out to study the effects of scholarships on encouraging primary school students to continue their studies in lower...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 83178 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Cambodia - Challenges in scaling up preschools : Cambodia : challenges in scaling up preschools (Inglês)
This bulletin showcases a World Bank supported study in Cambodia, where researchers set out to study the effects of scholarships on encouraging primary school students to continue their studies in lower...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 83178 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Changing households' investment and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program (Inglês)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Changing households' investment and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81212 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos
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Nicaragua - Demand versus returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training (Inglês)
This brief summarizes the demand versus returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training in Nicaragua for 2005-2006. Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating...
No. do relatório: 81231 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (Inglês)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 81209 Data do documento: 14 de agosto de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos
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Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia (Inglês)
Scaling up early childhood development services has the potential to increase children's cognitive and socio-emotional development and promote school readiness in a large segment of the population. This...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6540 Data do documento: 1 de julho de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Demand versus returns ? pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training (Inglês)
Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating capacity of the poor, such as vocational training, micro-finance or business grants, are widespread in the developing world. How to target such interventions...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6389 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Can small farmers protect themselves against bad weather? (Inglês)
Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 71392 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos,Marcus,Aliza
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Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies : experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation (Inglês)
While climate change is likely to increase weather risks in many developing countries, there is little evidence on effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents experimental evidence...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS6053 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (Inglês)
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Artigo de revista No. do relatório: 92920 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos
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Changing households' investments and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program (Inglês)
Low aspirations can limit households’ investments and contribute to sustained poverty. Vice versa, increased aspirations can lead to investment and upward mobility. Yet how aspirations are formed is not...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS5137 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2009 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos