Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir and daughter aversion in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls...
This study evaluates the impact of incorporating mixed reality—including both augmented and virtual reality—into auto-mechanics training for students enrolled in selected public technical technological...
This paper studies the effect of government issuance on firm issuance during banking crises using transaction-level bond and loan data from 66 countries between 1991 and 2017. Governments rarely issue...
This paper quantifies learning losses between 2020 and 2022 in the Dominican Republic, an upper-middle-income country. The paper uses data from a sample of ninth-grade students who benefited from computer...
This paper estimates the effect on birth outcomes of a mother’s being treated by more-skilled versus less-skilled physicians, by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned newly graduated...
Adoption of economic inclusion programs (bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets) is...
Gender gaps in labor market outcomes persist in South Asia. An open question is whether supply- or demand-side constraints play a larger role. This paper investigates this using matched data from three...
Adoption of economic inclusion programs (bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets) is...
A strong evidence base has documented the many ways in which international migration can bring large development benefits for individuals and communities. Flagship reports and analytical work from international...
This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 24 studies evaluating the impact of formal loans on small and medium-sized enterprise performance. Using a Bayesian hierarchical model, the paper estimates that formal...
When the state does not reach with the same effectiveness everybody and everywhere, it creates pockets of exclusions and hampers the opportunities of individuals belonging to the excluded groups to participate...
Climatic shocks exacerbate consumption volatility and seasonality. When facing fluctuations in labor needs and prices, low-income rural households may rationally increase their consumption during specific...
This paper investigates the impact of an export promotion policy consisting of ad-valorem subsidies for a set of targeted products, on the performance of Pakistani exports in the textile sector. The findings...
Recent improvements in survey methodologies have increased measured consumption in many low- and lower-middle-income countries that now collect a more comprehensive measure of household consumption. Faced...
This evaluation focuses on the preparedness of the World Bank Group, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to support epidemic- and pandemic-related health emergencies...
El desplazamiento forzado ha alcanzado niveles sin precedentes, con más de 120 millones de personas desplazadas a nivel mundial hasta 2024 debido a conflictos, violencia, cambio climático y violaciones...
Countries frequently revise how they measure income or consumption due to changes in data collection and questionnaire design. These changes create comparability breaks in poverty trends over time. This...
Au Sahel, les programmes d’inclusion économique jouent un rôle crucial face aux défis combinés de la pauvreté, du changement climatique et de la fragilité. En apportant un soutien intégré aux ménages vulnérables...
In the Sahel, economic inclusion programs can achieve multiple objectives and are increasingly relevant in a context of overlapping crises. By addressing the multiple constraints faced by poor and vulnerable...
Legal institutions play an important role in shaping gender equality in economic domains, from inheritance to labor markets. But where do gender equal laws come from? Using cross-country data on social...