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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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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2008
Most of the aid effectiveness literature has focused on the potential growth effects of aggregate aid, with inconclusive results. Considering that donors have repeatedly stressed the multidimensionality of their objectives, a more disaggregated view on aid effectiveness is warranted. The impact...
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Aid and child health : a disaggregated analysis of the effects of aid on impaired growth
Durevall, Dick; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 182 (2024), pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073453
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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...
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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