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  • Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (anglais)

    In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 184792 Date du document: 28 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ozier,Owen

  • 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

  • Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (anglais)

    In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8835 Date du document: 30 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ozier,Owen

  • Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition : evidence from simultaneous field experiments (anglais)

    Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8473 Date du document: 13 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gauri,Varun,Jamison,Julian C,Mazar,Nina,Ozier,Owen,Raha,Shomikho,Saleh,Karima

  • 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

  • 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

  • Africa - Health service delivery in Mozambique : results of 2014 service delivery indicator survey (anglais)

    This report presents the results from the implementation of the first SDI survey in the health sector in Mozambique. A unique feature of the SDI surveys is that it examines the production of health services...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: AUS3420 Date du document: 24 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Atakhodjaeva,Raykhona,Martin,Gayle,Molina,Ezequiel,Villar Uribe,Manuela,Dastgir, Mikail,Alfano,Marco,Ozier,Owen,Ambel,Alemayehu A.,Sarker,Intissar,Matavel,Osvaldo Augusto

  • 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

  • The impact of secondary schooling in Kenya : a regression discontinuity analysis (anglais)

    This paper estimates the impacts of secondary school on human capital, occupational choice, and fertility for young adults in Kenya. The probability of admission to government secondary school rises sharply...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7384 Date du document: 6 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ozier,Owen

  • Exploiting externalities to estimate the long-term effects of early childhood deworming (anglais)

    This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7052 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ozier,Owen

  • Malaysia economic monitor : high-performing education (anglais)

    Malaysia's economy regained momentum but yearly growth is set to decelerate in 2013. Export recovery into 2014 is expected to offset slower domestic demand and lead to a pick-up in growth. Fiscal consolidation...

    Type de document: Mises à jour et modélisation économiques Numéro du rapport: 83291 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gil Sander,Frederico,Jalil,Intan Nadia,Ali,Rabia,Lathapipat,Dilaka,Jithitikulchai,Theepakorn,Taglioni,Daria,Testaverde,Mauro,Ozier,Owen,Ozden,Caglar,Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa,Zachau,Ulrich,Shetty,Sudhir,Benveniste,Luis,Verghis,Mathew A.

  • Perils of simulation : parallel streams and the case of stata's rnormal command (anglais)

    Large-scale simulation-based studies rely on at least three properties of pseudorandom number sequences: they behave in many ways like truly random numbers; they can be replicated; and they can be generated...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6278 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ozier,Owen

  • 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

  • Incentives to learn (anglais)

    The authors report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya. Girls who scored well on academic exams received a cash grant and had school fees paid...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3546 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kremer,Michael Robert,Miguel,Edward A.,Ozier,Owen,Thornton,Rebecca Lynn