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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo

Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020

This paper uses microsimulation techniques to quantify the potential ex-ante impacts of several minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes in Kosovo. The results show that the overall impacts of a minimum wage increase in the baseline scenario are likely to be modest, although the impacts...

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Danzer, Natalia - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Reducing Tobacco Use through Taxation in Trinidad and Tobago : Modelling the Long-term Health and Economic Impact

Marquez, Patricio V. - 2018

This report uses selected scenarios for increasing excise taxes on tobacco products in Trinidad and Tobago, with the aim of reducing smoking prevalence across the population. These scenarios provide inputs for modeling the long-term health and cost benefits to the population of proposed excise...

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Remarks During Press Call on 100 Countries Milestone for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Emergency Health Support

Malpass, David - 2020

David Malpass, President of the World Bank, discussed the severe health and economic impacts that the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and shut down have inflicted on developing countries. The World Bank Group's goal was to provide rapid, flexible responses to developing countries. That's a...

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COVID-19 mortality in rich and poor countries : a tale of two pandemics?

Schellekens, Philip; Sourrouille, Diego - 2020

COVID-19 can be described as a heat-seeking missile speeding toward the most vulnerable in society. That metaphor applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet, despite the extensive spread of the virus, the mortality toll...

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Cash Transfers and Health : Evidence from Tanzania

Evans, David K. - 2016

How do conditional cash transfers impact health-related outcomes? This paper examines the 2010 randomized introduction of a program in Tanzania and finds nuanced impacts. An initial surge in clinic visits after 1.5 years-due to more visits by those already complying with program health...

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Invitations, incentives, and conditions : a randomized evaluation of demand-side interventions for health screenings in Armenia

De Walque, Damien; Chukwuma, Adanna; … - 2020

The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health screening for diabetes and hypertension among Armenian adults ages 35-68 who had not been tested in the last 12 months. The interventions are personal invitations from a physician...

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Overview and meta-analysis of Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) impact evaluations

Andrés, Luis; Borja-Vega, Christian; Fenwick, Crystal; … - 2018

This paper presents an overview and meta-analysis of the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions around the world. It is based on 136 impact evaluations (randomized and quasi-experimental studies) that explore the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health...

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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers

Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...

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Equivalent years of schooling : a metric to communicate learning gains in concrete terms

Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei - 2019

In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education … difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the … individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non …

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