During COVID-19, curfews spread like wildfire. Although their impact on curbing the spread of disease remains to be proven, curfews have the potential to bring about costs to society in multiple domains...
We crowdsource information on approximately 22,000 train rides undertaken by commuters on Rio de Janeiro’s SuperVia to study sexual harassment in the public space and its effects on demand for a women-reserved...
Governments around the world are leveraging the power of technology in transformative ways to realize the promise of digital government: improving public service delivery, administration, and social value...
Major technological changes in the production and analysis of data have opened opportunities to transform the way we use integrated high-frequency data ecosystems and advanced analytical tools, notably...
With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available...
Road traffic crashes (RTC) are the number one cause of death for children and young adults ages 5-29 years. On average, only seventeen percent of road traffic deaths are estimated to be reported in the...
The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Group generates high-quality and operationally relevant data and research to transform development policy, help reduce extreme poverty, and secure shared prosperity...
Impact Evaluation to Development Impact (i2i) is a multi-donor trust fund managed by Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) in the World Bank Research Group. It is designed to generate high-qualityand operationally...
A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically transform and better inform the way that transport and information and communications technology (ICT) projects...
Does research add value to aid? Specifically, does impact evaluation research help or hinder the delivery of development projects? This paper analyzes the question by constructing a new data set of 100...
Research in economics and psychology highlights how preferences about inter-temporal choices (today vs. tomorrow) formed in early life can have profound effects on future economic and financial decision-making...
This paper studies the impact of a comprehensive financial education program spanning six states, 868 schools, and approximately 20,000 high school students in Brazil through a randomized control trial...
Created in 2005 in the Bank's Chief Economist Office, Development Impact Evaluation Initiative (DIME) was re-launched in 2009 as a broad-based decentralized effort to mainstream the use of impact evaluation...
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for Bank staff on the process of designing and executing impact evaluations. This document is not a technical guide on impact evaluation methods, but...
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for Bank staff on the process of designing and executing impact evaluations. This document is not a technical guide on impact evaluation methods, but...
This report discusses the World Bank aided Women's Development Initiatives Project (WDIP), under implementation in Ethiopia. The study assesses the empowerment status of Ethiopian women in both rural and...