Documents et rapports
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Texting Parents about Early Child Development : Behavioral Changes and Unintended Social Effects (anglais)
Parenting interventions have the potential to improve early childhood development. Text messages are considered a promising channel to deliver parenting information at large scale. This paper tests whether...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9492 Date du document: 9 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barrera,Oscar,Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Report : Long-term Evaluation of Atencion a Crisis Interventions (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)
In recent years, there has been renewed attention on policies to enhance the income generating capacity and productivity of the poor (World Bank, 2012). Since both skills and capital can limit productive...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 145957 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos,Premand,Patrick
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Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World : Evidence from a School Construction Experiment (anglais)
Interventions targeting early childhood hold promise for reducing the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Results from a randomized evaluation of a preschool construction program in Cambodia suggest...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 178014 Date du document: 1 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Combining income generation with Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs to cope with severe weather conditions (anglais)
Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 123791 Date du document: 1 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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How Well Do We Measure Non-Cognitive Skills in Developing Countries? Initial Lessons from STEP Skills Measurement Program (anglais)
Standard skills indicators leave an information gap on workforce skill characteristics, job skill requirements, and quality of worker-job matches that prevents policymakers from making informed and timely...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 123792 Date du document: 1 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Laajaj,Rachid,Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Macours,Karen,Rubio-Codina,Marta,Vakis,Renos
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Adoption of Improved Seeds and Land Allocation : Evidence from DRC (anglais)
There is a resurgent interest in agricultural input subsidies as instruments to increase adoption of yield increasing technologies in developing countries. But what is the impact of such technologies on...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 150140 Date du document: 3 juillet 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bernard,Tanguy,Lambert,Sylvie,Macours,Karen,Vinez,Margaux Laurence
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Measuring skills in developing countries (anglais)
Measures of cognitive, noncognitive, and technical skills are increasingly used in development economics to analyze the determinants of skill formation, the role of skills in economic decisions, or simply...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8000 Date du document: 8 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Laajaj,Rachid,Macours,Karen
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Sustaining impacts when transfers end : the role of women leaders for aspirations and human capital investments (anglais)
Sustainability of short-term interventions may depend on whether they manage to change families’ attitudes towards the future and related social norms. This investigation shows that role female models...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 121569 Date du document: 17 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos
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Wealth gradients in early childhood cognitive development in five Latin American countries (anglais)
Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6779 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Behrman,Jere R.,Araujo,Maria Caridad,Azuero,, Rodrigo,Bernal,Raquel,Bravo, David,Lopez Boo,Florencia,Macours,Karen,Marshall, Daniela,Paxson,Christina H.,Vakis,Renos
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Cambodia - Challenges in scaling up preschools : Cambodge - Les défis liés au développement des écoles maternelles à grande echelle (français)
This bulletin showcases a World Bank supported study in Cambodia, where researchers set out to study the effects of scholarships on encouraging primary school students to continue their studies in lower...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83178 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Cambodia - Challenges in scaling up preschools : Cambodia : challenges in scaling up preschools (anglais)
This bulletin showcases a World Bank supported study in Cambodia, where researchers set out to study the effects of scholarships on encouraging primary school students to continue their studies in lower...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83178 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Changing households' investment and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Changing households' investment and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81212 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos
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Nicaragua - Demand versus returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training (anglais)
This brief summarizes the demand versus returns? Pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training in Nicaragua for 2005-2006. Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating...
Numéro du rapport: 81231 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81209 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos
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Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia (anglais)
Scaling up early childhood development services has the potential to increase children's cognitive and socio-emotional development and promote school readiness in a large segment of the population. This...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6540 Date du document: 1 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bouguen,Adrien,Filmer,Deon P.,Macours,Karen,Naudeau,Sophie
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Demand versus returns ? pro-poor targeting of business grants and vocational skills training (anglais)
Interventions aimed at increasing the income generating capacity of the poor, such as vocational training, micro-finance or business grants, are widespread in the developing world. How to target such interventions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6389 Date du document: 1 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Can small farmers protect themselves against bad weather? (anglais)
Severe weather conditions can undo even the best efforts of families to break free of poverty. Households that rely on subsistence or small-scale farming are especially at the mercy of severe weather...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71392 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos,Marcus,Aliza
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Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies : experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation (anglais)
While climate change is likely to increase weather risks in many developing countries, there is little evidence on effective policies to facilitate adaptation. This paper presents experimental evidence...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6053 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Premand,Patrick,Vakis,Renos
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (anglais)
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92920 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos
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Changing households' investments and aspirations through social interactions : evidence from a randomized transfer program (anglais)
Low aspirations can limit households’ investments and contribute to sustained poverty. Vice versa, increased aspirations can lead to investment and upward mobility. Yet how aspirations are formed is not...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5137 Date du document: 1 novembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Vakis,Renos