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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A.; Onishi, Junko; Wong, Susan - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 6 (2014) 4, pp. 1-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377438
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A.; Onishi, Junko; Wong, Susan - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516769
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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460767
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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives … to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109859
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Canada's flagship development priority : maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Proulx, Kristina R.; Ruckert, Arne; Labonté, Ronald - In: Canadian journal of development studies 38 (2017) 1, pp. 39-53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730024
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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities
Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013
This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190156
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Getting ahead by spending more? : local community response to state merit aid programs
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Roy, Joydeep - 2018
In more than half of U.S. states over the past two decades, the implementation of merit aid programs has dramatically reduced net tuition expenses for college-bound students who attend in-state colleges. Although the intention of these programs was to improve access to enrollment for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926203
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Foreign aid and child educational attainment indeveloping countries
Arvin, B. Mak; Lew, Byron - In: International journal of education economics and development 1 (2009) 2, pp. 166-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985164
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Increased coverage of maternal health : services among the poor in Western Uganda in an output-based aid voucher scheme
Obare, Francis; Okwero, Peter; Villegas, Leslie; Mills, … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554651
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Increased Coverage of Maternal Health Services Among the Poor in Western Uganda in an Output-Based Aid Voucher Scheme
Obare, Francis - 2018
Vouchers stimulate demand for health care services by giving beneficiaries purchasing power. In turn, health facilities …? claims are reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with improved quality of health care. Efficient strategies to generate … Uganda away from inequity and toward universal health care. A reproductive health voucher program was implemented in 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935854