Documents et rapports
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Big Sisters (anglais)
This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children's human capital...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9454 Date du document: 27 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen,Fernald,Lia C.,Knauer,Heather Ashley
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Enhancing Young Children’s Language Acquisition through Parent–Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (anglais)
Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 145822 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knauer,Heather Ashley,Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen,Aboud,Frances E,Fernald, Lia C.H.
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Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development : Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya (anglais)
In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before entering the formal education system where they will need to understand and speak a...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9028 Date du document: 27 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knauer,Heather Ashley,Kariger,Patricia Karol,Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen,Fernald,Lia C. H.
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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (anglais)
Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8733 Date du document: 7 février 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knauer,Heather Ashley,Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen,Aboud,Frances E,Fernald,Lia C.H.
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Gendered language (anglais)
Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes all -- nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. Drawing on a broad range of historical...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8464 Date du document: 4 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen
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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice (anglais)
This study presents results from a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 years in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7977 Date du document: 16 février 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brudevold-Newman,Andrew Peter,Honorati,Maddalena,Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen
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The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment (anglais)
This study estimates the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7440 Date du document: 14 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen
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Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies (anglais)
This paper measures the economic impact of social pressure to share income with kin and neighbors in rural Kenyan villages. The authors conduct a lab experiment in which they randomly vary the observability...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6085 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jakiela,Pamela,Ozier,Owen
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Microfinance games (anglais)
Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3959 Date du document: 1 juillet 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Jakiela,Pamela,Karlan,Dean S.,Morduch,Jonathan J.