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    More Time Is Better : An Evaluation of The Full Time School Program In Uruguay (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (25 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Cerdan-Infantes, Pedro More Time Is Better
    Keywords: Academic Year ; Disability ; Education ; Education for All ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Human Development ; Learning Outcomes ; Literature ; Ministry of Education ; Papers ; Pedagogical Model ; Primary Education ; Research ; School ; Schools ; Science ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Student ; Student ; Tertiary Education ; Academic Year ; Disability ; Education ; Education for All ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Human Development ; Learning Outcomes ; Literature ; Ministry of Education ; Papers ; Pedagogical Model ; Primary Education ; Research ; School ; Schools ; Science ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Student ; Student ; Tertiary Education ; Academic Year ; Disability ; Education ; Education for All ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Human Development ; Learning Outcomes ; Literature ; Ministry of Education ; Papers ; Pedagogical Model ; Primary Education ; Research ; School ; Schools ; Science ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Student ; Student ; Tertiary Education
    Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of the full-time school program in Uruguay on standardized test scores of 6th grade students. The program lengthened the school day from a half day to a full day, and provided additional inputs to schools to make this possible, such as additional teachers and construction of classrooms. The program was not randomly placed, but targeted poor urban schools. Using propensity score matching, the authors construct a comparable group of schools, and show that students in very disadvantaged schools improved in their test scores by 0.07 of a standard deviation per year of participation in the full-time program in mathematics, and 0.04 in language. While the program is expensive, it may, if well targeted, help address inequalities in education in Uruguay, at an increase in cost per student not larger than the current deficit in spending between Uruguay and the rest of the region
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    School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation (2005)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive Also available in print
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3523
    Parallel Title: Kremer, Michael School meals, educational achievement, and school competition
    Keywords: Academic achievement ; School children Food ; Academic achievement ; School children Food
    Abstract: "Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison group. The meals program led to higher curriculum test scores, but only in schools where the teacher was relatively experienced prior to the program. The school meals displaced teaching time and led to larger class sizes. Despite improved incentives, teacher absenteeism remained at a high level of 30 percent. Treatment schools raised their fees, and comparison schools close to treatment schools decreased their fees. Some of the price effects are caused by a combination of capacity constraints and pupil transfers that would not happen if the school meals were ordered in all schools. The intention-to-treat estimator of the effect of the randomized program incorporates those price effects, and therefore it should be considered a lower bound on the effect of generalized school meals. This insight on price effects generalizes to other randomized program evaluations. This paper--a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 2, Africa Technical Families--is part of a larger effort in the region to increase our understanding of the impact of programs aimed at reaching the Millennium Development Goals"--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Title from PDF file as viewed on 2/14/2005 , Also available in print.
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    Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31 (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Print Version: Gertler, Paul Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
    Keywords: Early Child and Children's Health ; Early Childhood Development ; Education ; Education Stimulation ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Labor Market Outcome ; Labor Markets ; Nutrition ; Poverty Reduction ; Services and Transfers To Poor ; Social Protections and Assistance ; Stunting
    Abstract: This paper reports the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in 1987-89, treatment consisted of a two-year, home-based intervention designed to improve nutrition and the quality of mother-child interactions to foster cognitive, language, and psycho-social skills. The original sample was 127 stunted children between ages 9 and 24 months. The study was able to track and interview 75 percent of the original sample 30 years after the intervention, both still living in Jamaica and migrated abroad. The findings reveal large and statistically significant effects on income and schooling; the treatment group had 43 percent higher hourly wages and 37 percent higher earnings than the control group. This is a substantial increase over the treatment effect estimated for age 22, when a 25 percent increase in earnings was observed
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9787
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    Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (62 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Celhay, Pablo Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
    Abstract: The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy. The rate of early initiation of prenatal care was 34 percent higher in the treatment group than in the control group while the incentives were being paid, and this effect persisted at least 15 months and likely 24 months or more after the incentives ended. These results are consistent with a model where the incentives enable providers to address the fixed costs of overcoming organizational inertia in innovation, and suggest that temporary incentives may be effective at motivating improvements in long-run provider performance at a substantially lower cost than permanent incentives
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7348
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    La evaluacion de impacto en la practica (2011)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821395851
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank Training Series
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Este libro pretende ser una introduccion accesible al tema de la evaluacion de impacto y a como aplicarla al ambito del desarrollo. Este tipo de evaluaciones sirve para determinar si un programa ha logrado o no los resultados previstos, y para explorar si existen estrategias alternativas con las que alcanzar mejor dichos resultados. El manual, que ofrece una introduccion no tecnica al tema, esta estructurado en tres partes: en la primera se explica que significa evaluar el impacto de los programas de desarrollo y por que es importante; la segunda parte se centra en como evaluar; en la tercera parte se aborda la cuestion de como implementar una evaluacion. Estos elementos constituyen los elementos basicos necesarios para llevar a cabo una evaluacion de impacto. La intencion es aproximarse al tema principalmente a partir de la intuicion, por lo que se ha minimizado la terminologia tecnica. Se ofrece al lector una serie de herramientas basicas de evaluacion (los conceptos y los metodos fundamentales) y se analiza su aplicacion a programas de desarrollo del mundo real
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8681-1
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    Using Performance Incentives to Improve Health Outcomes (2012)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
    Edition: 2012 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Gertler, Paul Using Performance Incentives to Improve Health Outcomes
    Abstract: This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the height-for-age of children 24-49 months. They attribute this improvement to increases in the use and quality of prenatal and postnatal care. Consistent with theory, They find larger effects of incentives on services where monetary rewards and the marginal return to effort are higher. The also find that incentives reduced the gap between provider knowledge and practice of appropriate clinical procedures by 20 percent, implying a large gain in efficiency. Finally, they find evidence of a strong complementarity between performance incentives and provider skill
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6100
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    Using Provider Performance Incentives to Increase HIV Testing and Counseling Services in Rwanda (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (24 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: De Walque, Damien Using Provider Performance Incentives to Increase HIV Testing and Counseling Services in Rwanda
    Abstract: Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by specific utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a paying for performance scheme to improve health services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services. This study examines the scheme's impact on individual and couples HIV testing and counseling and using data from a prospective quasi-experimental design. The study finds a positive impact of paying for performance with an increase of 6.1 percentage points in the probability of individuals having ever been tested. This positive impact is stronger for married individuals: 10.2 percentage points. The results also indicate larger impacts of paying for performance on the likelihood that the respondent reports both partners have ever been tested, especially among discordant couples (14.7 percentage point increase) in which only one of the partners is HIV positive
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6364
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    Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda (2010)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (29 p)
    Edition: 2010 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Gertler, Paul J Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
    Abstract: Paying for performance (P4P) provides financial incentives for providers to increase the use and quality of care. P4P can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort into specific activities, and by increasing the amount of resources available to finance the delivery of services. This paper evaluates the impact of P4P on the use and quality of prenatal, institutional delivery, and child preventive care using data produced from a prospective quasi-experimental evaluation nested into the national rollout of P4P in Rwanda. Treatment facilities were enrolled in the P4P scheme in 2006 and comparison facilities were enrolled two years later. The incentive effect is isolated from the resource effect by increasing comparison facilities' input-based budgets by the average P4P payments to the treatment facilities. The data were collected from 166 facilities and a random sample of 2158 households. P4P had a large and significant positive impact on institutional deliveries and preventive care visits by young children, and improved quality of prenatal care. The authors find no effect on the number of prenatal care visits or on immunization rates. P4P had the greatest effect on those services that had the highest payment rates and needed the lowest provider effort. P4P financial performance incentives can improve both the use of and the quality of health services. Because the analysis isolates the incentive effect from the resource effect in P4P, the results indicate that an equal amount of financial resources without the incentives would not have achieved the same gain in outcomes
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5190
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    L' evaluation d'impact en pratique (2011)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9780821395868
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank Training Series
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Ce manuel constitue une introduction accessible a l'evaluation d'impact et a sa pratique dans le domaine du developpement. Il est principalement destine aux professionnels du developpement et aux decideurs, mais peut egalement etre utile aux etudiants et a toute personne interessee a l'evaluation d'impact. Les evaluations d'impact prospectives visent a determiner si un programme a atteint ou non les resultats esperes ou a tester differentes strategies pour atteindre ces resultats. Ce rapport considere qu'une augmentation du nombre d'evaluations et une amelioration de leur qualite permettront de renforcer l'ensemble des preuves existantes au sujet de l'efficacite des politiques et programmes de developpement dans le monde. L'espoir est que les gouvernements et les professionnels du developpement puissent prendre des decisions fondees sur des resultats eprouves, tels que les preuves generees par les evaluations d'impact, de maniere a rendre plus efficace l'utilisation des ressources pour reduire la pauvrete et ameliorer le bien-etre des populations. Les trois parties du manuel constituent une introduction non technique a l'evaluation d'impact. Elles decrivent ce qu'il convient d'evaluer et pourquoi (partie 1) ; exposent des methodes d'evaluation (partie 2) ; et indiquent comment mettre en cuvre une evaluation (partie 3). Ces etapes constituent des elements essentiels a la realisation d'une evaluation d'impact. L'approche de l'evaluation d'impact dans ce manuel est largement intuitive et essaie de minimiser les aspects techniques. Ce rapport presente au lecteur une gamme d'outils d'evaluation d'impact et illustre leur application a de reels programmes de developpement
    DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8752-8
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