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There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
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presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …
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We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...
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We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
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This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …
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an objective view of the impact of FIRST funded projects on the growth in insurance markets as measured by insurance … have led to a change in the insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP. The paper showcases in section three, the dynamic … view and multipronged approaches to the insurance market development by highlighting country case studies, with different …
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-such as insurance, accounts, savings, and credit-that could help them manage financial risks …
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, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … among the determinants to the variance in TFP growth is market efficiency for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …
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general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into … countries are wasted because of inefficiencies. Although efficiency greatly varies across countries, low-income countries are … overall facing a double issue of low levels of education expenditure and weak efficiency of public expenditure on education …
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discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …
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