Documents et rapports
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Reflections of employers' gender preferences in job ads in India : an analysis of online job portal data (anglais)
Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8379 Date du document: 26 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chowdhury,Afra Rahman,Areias,Ana Carolina,Imaizumi,Saori,Nomura,Shinsaku,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Asymmetric information on noncognitive skills in the Indian labor market : an experiment in online job portal (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of noncognitive (socio-emotional) skills on job market outcomes, using a randomized control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8378 Date du document: 26 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Nomura,Shinsaku,Imaizumi,Saori,Areias,Ana Carolina,Chowdhury,Afra Rahman
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Enhancing school quality in Vietnam through participative and collaborative learning (anglais)
The Vietnam Escuela Nueva (VNEN) program incorporates and integrates several innovative and globally recognized practices including: (a) Participative and collaborative learning; (b) Self-paced learning...
Type de document: Autre étude en matière d’éducation Numéro du rapport: 118675 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parandekar,Suhas D.,Yamauchi,Futoshi,Ragatz,Andrew B.,Sedmik,Elisabeth,Sawamoto,Akiko
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Toward labor market policy 2.0 : the potential for using online job-portal big data to inform labor market policies in India (anglais)
Economists and other social scientists are increasingly using big data analytics to address longstanding economic questions and complement existing information sources. Big data produced by online platforms...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7966 Date du document: 9 février 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nomura,Shinsaku,Imaizumi,Saori,Areias,Ana Carolina,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Alternative and inclusive learning in the Philippines (anglais)
The Philippines has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of basic education in recent decades. Even so, despite significant improvements in primary and secondary education, the number of students...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: AUS14891 Date du document: 10 mai 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Igarashi,Takiko,Tenazas,Nicholas M.,Tiongco,Marites Manlangit
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Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event : the 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia (anglais)
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7627 Date du document: 11 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi,Larson,Donald F.
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Wage dynamics, turnover, and human capital : evidence from adolescent transition from school to work in the Philippines (anglais)
This paper examines wage dynamics and turnover using tracking data of adolescents from the Philippines. The analysis uses individual test scores in grade 6 to proxy abilities. The empirical results show...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7184 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Philippines - Making education spending count for the children of autonomous Muslim region of Mindanao : public expenditure and institutional review for ARMM basic education (anglais)
Children in the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have long suffered from the effects of underdevelopment, neglect, and conflict. The proportion of families in poverty in ARMM is the highest...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 100444 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Nixon,Hamish Antony David,Mariano,Maria Alma P.,Yamauchi,Futoshi,Tordecilla, Roy,Esguerra, Pinky,Capili,Miro Frances,Belisario, Carole,Neri, Lea
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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in Chinese agriculture (anglais)
This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7138 Date du document: 1 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Huang, Jikun,Otsuka,Keijiro,Wang,Xiaobing,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Roads, labor markets, and human capital : evidence from rural Indonesia (Vol. 1of1) (anglais)
This paper uses household panel data from rural Indonesia to examine the impact of road quality on labor supply and wages. First, road projects are found to increase transportation speed. Second, the empirical...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7139 Date du document: 1 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Wage growth, landholding, and mechanization in agriculture : evidence from Indonesia (anglais)
This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6789 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Population pressures, migration, and the returns to human capital and land : insights from Indonesia (anglais)
Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6790 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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An alternative estimate of school-based management impacts on students' achievements : evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
This paper aims to estimate the impact of school-based management on students' test scores in the Philippines. Estimation results using double differencing combined with propensity score matching show...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6747 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi
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School Resource and Performance Inequality : evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
This paper examines inequality patterns of school and teacher resources as well as student performance in the Philippines. School and teacher resources, measured by pupil classroom and teacher ratios and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6748 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parandekar,Suhas D.,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines, conducted...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81369 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of a large supply-side education intervention in the Philippines, the Third Elementary Education Project, on students' national achievement test scores. The authors find...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79456 Date du document: 3 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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School quality, labor markets and human capital investments : long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines (anglais)
This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6247 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students' learning achievement : evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of a large supply-side education intervention in the Philippines, the Third Elementary Education Project, on students' national achievement test scores. It finds that the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6246 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Liu,Yanyan,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Long-term impacts of global food crisis on production decisions : evidence from farm investments in Indonesia (anglais)
Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6065 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nose,Manabu,Yamauchi,Futoshi
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Prenatal seasonality, child growth, and schooling investments : evidence from rural Indonesia (anglais)
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. There is seasonality in birth weight: this measure is significantly higher immediately after the...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79371 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Yamauchi,Futoshi