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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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The impact of modest cash incentives on home visiting enrollment and participation
Jacob, Robin Tepper; Foster Friedman, Megan - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 10 (2024) 3, pp. 301-321
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014633589
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Unpacking the financial incentives in health by revisiting India's "Safe Motherhood Program”
Baulia, Susmita - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 3, pp. 633-671
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014369344
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269
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Cash, conditions, and child development : experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 19 (2019) 2, pp. 169-196
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037374
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Cash, conditions and child development : experimental evidence from a cash transfer in Honduras
López Bóo, Florencia; Creamer, John - 2018
. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926191