This book gathers in one volume all the information related to Automated DEC [Development Economics - Vice Presidency at the World Bank] Poverty Tables (ADePT) Edu, the software platform created by the World Bank for reporting and analyzing education indicators and education inequality. It...

There is a consensus on the need for Thailand to reform its education system to be able to compete with other high performing countries in the region. In terms of learning outcomes, the most recent evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment shows little improvement over...

Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject competency and wealth and gender using the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to occur not through disparate household characteristics...

Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics: Theory and Practical Applications is a comprehensive guide for analyzing and understanding the effects of macroeconomic shocks on income and consumption distribution, as well as using the ADePT Simulation Module. Since real-time micro data is...

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children’s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first...

We use data from three waves of India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. We find that children born during the monsoon months have lower anthropometric scores compared to children born during...

A number of complex tasks frequently challenge the computational resources in the areas of simulation modeling and estimation. Often these tasks have a distinct number of separable iterations that can be performed in parallel simultaneously and independently from each other. Earlier approaches...

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all...

Nicaragua ha logrado importantes avances en la educación de los niños, en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, a pesar de los avances, Nicaragua presenta importantes retos y desafíos para lograr que todos los niños y niñas en edad escolar tengan acceso a una buena educación. Este documento...

Nicaragua ha logrado importantes avances en la educación de los niños, en las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, a pesar de los avances, Nicaragua presenta importantes retos y desafíos para lograr que todos los niños y niñas en edad escolar tengan acceso a una buena educación. Este documento...