This report reviews high quality impact evaluations of results-based financing interventions (RBF) in education to investigate whether particular subgroups of students benefit systematically more (or less)...
Remote schools in developing countries are costly to supervise, resulting in low teacher accountability and poor education outcomes. This paper reports the results of a randomized evaluation of three treatments...
Poor teacher accountability leads to poor education quality, especially in remote schools that are costly to supervise. We report the result of a randomized evaluation of three interventions that established...
Teacher accountability is a key challenge to improving public education quality, particularly in more remote parts of Indonesia. The rate of teacher absenteeism in Indonesia has declined over the past...
Poor teacher accountability leads to poor education quality, especially in remotely located schools that are costly to supervise. This paper reports the impacts of three interventions that linked community-based...
This paper examines the longer-term impact of a project that expanded access to playgroup services in rural Indonesia. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention...
This paper studies the sustainability of early childhood education centers established under a large-scale, donor-funded project in rural Indonesia. Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data shows...
How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect the performance of incumbent employees in the public sector? This paper presents experimental evidence on this question in the context of a policy...
This paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 9 in rural Indonesia. In terms of cognitive skills, the analysis...
This paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia. It documents the existence of substantial differences in school readiness between 6 to 9...
This paper reports on the quality of early childhood education in rural Indonesia. On average, the paper finds that centers created under the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development Project...
This paper uses three waves of longitudinal data to examine the impact of expanding access to preschool services in rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at...
This brief summarizes the impact and targeting of social infrastructure investments: lessons from the Nicaraguan Social Fund. The fund was created in 1990. The benefit incidence and impact of projects...
This brief summarizes about did the health card program ensure access to medical care for the poor during Indonesia's economic crisis for the 1998 period. The Indonesian social safety net health card program...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled An impact evaluation of education, health, and water supply investments by the Bolivian social investment fund, conducted...
This paper presents the study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a supplementary matched control group. The aim of the trial is to evaluate a community-based early...
How can we make schools work better? It is a question being asked around the world. Getting children to school is only the first step. From then on, there's a host of factors that can decide whether children...
How can we make schools work better? It is a question being asked around the world. Getting children to school is only the first step. From then on, there's a host of factors that can decide whether children...
This study evaluates the effect of four randomized interventions aimed at strengthening school committees, and subsequently improving learning outcomes, in public primary schools in Indonesia. All study...
This issue includes the following: growth and risk: methodology and micro evidence; by Chris Elbers, Jan Willem Gunning, and Bill Kinsey. Dollars, debt, and international financial institutions: dedollarizing...