Search Results - subject:"randomized evaluations"

Worms, farms and schools : three essays on investment choices in Uganda

Lerva, Benedetta - 2020

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Spillovers of Conditional Cash Transfers across Localities: evidence from Progresa

Jérémie, GIGNOUX - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2009

The conditional cash transfer program Progresa (now Oportunidades),implemented in rural areas of Mexico from 1997 onward, is likely to have spillovers across villages on the education outcomes of many children who reside in non-beneficiary localities but attend secondary schools located in...

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Cautionary notes on the use of field experiments to address policy issues

Harrison, Glenn W. - In: Oxford review of economic policy 30 (2014) 4, pp. 753-763

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Chapter 61 Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3895-3962). 2007

externalities. Finally, it discusses some of the issues involved in drawing general conclusions from randomized evaluations …, stratification, level of randomization and data collection methods. Fourth, it discusses how to analyze data from randomized … evaluations when there are departures from the basic framework. It reviews in particular how to handle imperfect compliance and …

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Chapter 16 Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries

Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 945-1017). 2006

About 80% of the world's children live in developing countries. Their well-being as adults depends heavily on the education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children still leave school at a young age and often learn...

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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of Development Economics

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Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries

Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

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