Documentos e Relatórios
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Impacts and Spillovers of a Low-Cost Multifaceted Economic Inclusion Program in Chad (Inglês)
This study analyzes the direct effects and local spillovers of a low-cost multifaceted economic inclusion program through a randomized controlled trial in Chad. The intervention included group savings...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11084 Data do documento: 12 de março de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Patrick Premand,Pascale Schnitzer
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Seeds of Change : The Impact of Ethiopia’s Direct Seed Marketing Approach on Smallholders’ Seed Purchases and Productivity (Inglês)
Several factors contribute to the limited use of improved seed varieties in Ethiopia. Among those, on the supply side, is the restricted availability of seeds in the volume, quality, and timeliness required...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11078 Data do documento: 3 de março de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen,Abate,Gashaw T.,Yimam,Seid,Benfica,Rui,Spielman,David J.,Place,Frank
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Effects of a Community-Driven Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention on Diarrhea, Child Growth, and Local Institutions : A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo (Inglês)
Diarrhea and growth faltering in early childhood reduce survival and impair neurodevelopment. This paper assesses whether a national program in the Democratic Republic of Congo reduced diarrhea and stunting...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11070 Data do documento: 19 de fevereiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Quattrochi, John P,Croke,Kevin,Caleb Jeremie Dohou,Luca Stanus Ghib,Yannick Bokasola Lokaya,Aidan Coville,Mvukiyehe,Eric
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Does Free Sound Too Cheap ? The Adverse Effect of a Randomized Text Message Campaign on Program Take-up (Inglês)
This study conducted a randomized experiment to improve participation in a youth employment program in Côte d'Ivoire by testing text message outreach methods. Sending text messages highlighting that the...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11063 Data do documento: 11 de fevereiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Annan,Jeannie,Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube,Josephine Tassy,Lea Marie Rouanet,Clara Delavallade,Evans,David
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Lying to the Taxman or Accepting a Helping Hand ? Evidence from a Novel Experiment on SMEs in Tanzania (Inglês)
This paper presents the results from a novel field experiment that examined the impact of in- creasing the presence of revenue authority officers on tax compliance and tax morale among small and medium-size...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11062 Data do documento: 10 de fevereiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Revocatus Washington Paul,Mdee,Ephraim,Fimbo,Massaga,Jonathan George Karver,Zain Chaudhry,Christopher Alexander Hoy
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Impact Evaluation of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project and the Regional Express Train (TER) in Dakar, Senegal : Compilation of Intermediate Results (Inglês)
This note describes the effort to conduct a multidimensional rigorous impact evaluation of the Bus Rapid Transit pilot Project and the Regional Express Train in Dakar, Senegal. This note is focused on...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 197036 Data do documento: 4 de fevereiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: World Bank
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Working for Yourself or for Your Kids ? Childcare Expansion Policy in Uzbekistan (Inglês)
In developed countries, public childcare programs have increased maternal employment by easing time constraints. However, their impact in lower-middle-income settings with multigenerational households...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11038 Data do documento: 15 de janeiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Abdurazzakova,Dilnovoz,Chiyu Niu,Avralt-Od Purevjav
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Conserving Wildlife through Demand Reduction and Supply Alternatives : Two Experiments in Restaurants in Kinshasa (Inglês)
High aggregate levels of wildlife consumption in Central African cities may be depleting wildlife populations. This study explores the impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on wild meat consumption...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS11016 Data do documento: 7 de janeiro de 2025 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cisse,Abdoulaye,Gabriel Englander,Ingram,Daniel J.
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Local Knowledge, Formal Evidence, and Policy Decisions (Inglês)
How do policymakers value advice from local experts versus formal evidence from impact evaluations when making policy decisions? Using a discrete choice experiment conducted in collaboration with the World...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10994 Data do documento: 9 de dezembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Vivalt, Eva,Aidan Coville,KC,Sampada
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Behaviorally Informed Messages Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions : Insights from a Global Meta-Analysis (Inglês)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, low- and middle-income countries struggled with lower vaccination rates compared to wealthier countries, posing challenges to reducing virus transmission, mitigating healthcare...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10981 Data do documento: 19 de novembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Daniel Alejandro Pinzon Hernandez,Jungkyu Rhys Lim,Michelle Dugas,Ellen Elizabeth Moscoe,Mohamad Chatila,Cameron,Corey,Renos Vakis,Zeina Afif,Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera
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Building Women's Skills for Economic Inclusion and Resilience (Inglês)
Can skills-based programs promote women’s economic inclusion? This study randomizes access to a program teaching entrepreneurship skills in rural Uganda. The program covers record-keeping, identifying...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10980 Data do documento: 19 de novembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Megan Elizabeth Lang,Seither,Julia
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Can Facebook Ads Prevent Malaria ? Two Field Experiments in India (Inglês)
This study uses a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a nationwide malaria prevention advertising campaign delivered through social media in India. Ads were randomly assigned...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10967 Data do documento: 5 de novembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Donati,Dante,Rao,Nandan,Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera,Ana Maria Munoz Boudet
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Designing Air Quality Measurement Systems in Data-Scarce Settings (Inglês)
While populations in low- and middle-income countries are exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution and its consequences, the majority of economics research on the topic is focused on high-income...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10957 Data do documento: 24 de outubro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Hoffmann,Bridget,Sveta Milusheva
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Crisis Credit, Employment Protection, Indebtedness, and Risk (Inglês)
This paper studies how credit guarantee and employment protection programs interact in assisting firms during crises times. The paper analyzes how these government programs influence credit allocation...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10958 Data do documento: 24 de outubro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Huneeus,Federico,Kaboski,Joseph P.,Larrain,Mauricio,Sergio Schmukler,Vera,Mario
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Trade Restructuring : Assessing Labor Market and Welfare Effects (Inglês)
This paper assesses patterns and drivers of current trade restructuring and its welfare implications. The main trade restructuring drivers include lower cost advanced technologies, rising offshore labor...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10955 Data do documento: 23 de outubro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Abreha,Kaleb,Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
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Digitalization, Remote Work and Firm Resilience : Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock (Inglês)
Using Business Pulse Survey data for 61 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper presents novel findings on remote work, enabled by digitalization, as a source of resilience for firms. The results...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10949 Data do documento: 15 de outubro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ileana Cristina Constantinescu,Arti Grover,Gaurav Nayyar
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Using Post-Double Selection Lasso in Field Experiments (Inglês)
The post-double selection Lasso estimator has become a popular way of selecting control variables when analyzing randomized experiments. This is done to try to improve precision, and reduce bias from attrition...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10931 Data do documento: 26 de setembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cilliers,Jacobus,Nour Elashmawy,David McKenzie
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How Well Did Real-Time Indicators Track Household Welfare Changes in Developing Countries during the COVID-19 Crisis? (Inglês)
This paper investigates the extent to which real-time indicators derived from internet search, cell phones, and satellites predict changes in household socioeconomic indicators across approximately 300...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10916 Data do documento: 18 de setembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: David Newhouse,Swindle,Rachel,Wang,Shun,Joshua David Merfeld,Utz Johann Pape,Kibrom Tafere,Michael Weber
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Fiscal Challenges in Small States : Weathering Storms, Rebuilding Resilience (Inglês)
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global shocks that followed have worsened fiscal and debt positions in small states, intensifying their already substantial fiscal challenges—especially the need to manage...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10913 Data do documento: 17 de setembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Samuel Christopher Hill,Jeetendra Khadan
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Understanding the Main Determinants of Telework and Its Role in Women’s Labor Force Participation (Inglês)
This paper studies telework as an opportunity to increase women’s labor force participation in Mexico. Using data on the availability and use of information technology in households, the paper models women’s...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas No. do relatório: WPS10889 Data do documento: 3 de setembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Gabriela Inchauste,Mariel Cecilia Siravegna