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Electoral Cycles and Public Spending during the Pandemic
Lokshin, Michael; Rodriguez-Ferrari, Aylén; Torre, Iván - 2022
This paper uses a newly assembled data set on various types of social protection spending in 154 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social protection stimulus budget. The analysis shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243175
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Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Schady, Norbert - 2016
There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in … development (ECD) outcomes are important markers of the welfare of children. In addition, the deleterious effects of poor outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748057
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The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia : Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children
Brinkman, Sally - 2017
rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …
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Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India's Total Sanitation Campaign
Spears, Dean - 2017
Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries -- and especially in South Asia -- widespread open defecation without making use of a toilet or latrine is an important source of childhood disease. This paper studies the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973869
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government
Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2017
effect even on children in households that did not adopt latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in districts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974066
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United We Stand Divided We Fall : Maternal Social Participation and Children's Nutritional Status in Peru
Favara, Marta - 2017
social capital via participation in community organizations and their children's nutritional status at 1 and 5 years. Using … year old for those children whose mothers have no formal education. No significant association is found at 5 years of age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974832
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Extending the School Day in Latin America and the Caribbean
Holland, Peter - 2017
Countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean are reforming their education systems to add more hours to the school day. This paper examines the evidence on the relationship between instructional time and student learning, reviewing 19 studies that measure the effects of longer school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971577
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2017
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973384
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Propensity Score Matching and Policy Impact Analysis : A Demonstration in Eviews
Essama-Nssah, B. - 2006
Effective development policymaking creates a need for reliable methods of assessing effectiveness. There should be, therefore, an intimate relationship between effective policymaking and impact analysis. The goal of a development intervention defines the metric by which to assess its impact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779259
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Performance of Social Safety Net Programs in Uttar Pradesh
Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012
Ajwad assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on household welfare. The study is largely a quantitative assessment. Five main findings emerge from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712943