Documents et rapports
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Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete : Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (anglais)
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 109367 Date du document: 1 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda (anglais)
This study looks at how a community event—adolescent women's economic and social empowerment -- and a family factor -- sibling sex composition—interact in shaping gender differences in preferences for...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7699 Date du document: 7 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao,Joao,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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As good as the company they keep? : improving farmers’ social networks (anglais)
Extension services have a history of being relatively expensive and not always effective. At the same time, studies show that informal social networks can be very beneficial in helping increase productivity...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 103850 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leonard,Kenneth,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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The contribution of traditional herbal medicine practitioners to Kenyan health care delivery : results from community health-seeking behavior vignettes and a traditional herbal medicine practitioner survey (anglais)
This study examines the role that Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners (THMPs) play in Kenya in the context of its human resources for health crisis. Two surveys were carried out to obtain evidence...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 65133 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lambert,John D. H.,Leonard,Kenneth,Mungai, Geoffrey,Omindi-Ogaja, Elizabeth,Gatheru, Gladys,Mirangi, Tabitha,Owara, Jennifer,Herbst,Christopher H.,Ramana, GNV,Lemiere,Christophe
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The quality of medical advice in low-income countries (anglais)
This paper provides an overview of recent work on quality measurement of medical care and its correlates in four low and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4501 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das,Jishnu,Hammer, Jeffrey,Leonard,Kenneth