Documents et rapports
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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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Does money matter? : the effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Does money matter? : the effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador, conducted in 2003 in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81298 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Does money matter ? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador (anglais)
The authors examine how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4226 Date du document: 1 mai 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Child health and economic crisis in Peru (anglais)
The effect of macroeconomic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. This article analyzes the impact of a profound crisis in Peru on infant mortality. It finds an increase of about...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77488 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador : the roles of wealth, health and parenting (anglais)
Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3605 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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The World Bank economic review 19 (2) (anglais)
The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth by Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, and Gwen Busby; Attaching Workers...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 42878 Date du document: 1 janvier 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Busby, Gwen,Friebel,Guido,Guriev,Sergei M.,Isham,Jonathan T.,Khandker,Shahidur R.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Paxson,Christina H.,Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Woolcock,Michael
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Allocation and impact of social funds : spending on school infrastructure in Peru (anglais)
Between 1992 and 1998 the Peruvian Social Fund (foncodes) spent about US dollar 570 million funding micro projects throughout the country. Many of these projects involved constructing and renovating school...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77384 Date du document: 1 mai 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paxson,Christina H.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Is African manufacturing skill-constrained? (anglais)
Total factor productivity has been low in most Sub-Saharan Africa. It is often said that the binding constraint on African industrial development is the inadequate supply of technologically capable workers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2212 Date du document: 31 octobre 1999 Auteur: Pack,Howard,Paxson,Christina H.
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Inter-industry labor mobility in Taiwan, China (anglais)
Do flexible labor markets lubricate growth? Using data from Taiwan, China, to analyze the effects of labor market flexibility, the authors find that: 1) Workers are more likely to move to industries that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2154 Date du document: 31 août 1999 Auteur: Pack,Howard,Paxson,Christina H.
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Do the poor insure? A synthesis of the literature on risk and consumption in developing countries (anglais)
How well do rural households in developing countries mitigate the income risk of the rural sector? There are several sensible reasons why households cannot fully insure consumption against income fluctuations...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1008 Date du document: 31 octobre 1992 Auteur: Alderman,Harold H.,Paxson,Christina H.,DEC
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Patterns of aging in Thailand and Cote d' Ivoire (anglais)
This paper is broadly concerned with the living standards of older people in two contrasting developing countries, Cote d' Ivoire and Thailand. A series of household surveys from these two countries is...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: LSM81 Date du document: 31 juillet 1991 Auteur: Deaton,Angus S.,Paxson,Christina H.