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View article: How culturally wise psychological interventions can help reduce poverty
How culturally wise psychological interventions can help reduce poverty Open
Poverty is characterized by multidimensional economic, social, and psychological constraints that undermine people’s agency to pursue new opportunities and shape their life outcomes. How can interventions best support the agency of low-inc…
View article: Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships
Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships Open
Public interventions in the apprenticeship market often aim to increase demand or returns. We set up a double-sided experiment with youth and firms to analyse a subsidized dual apprenticeship program. This intervention seeks to relax finan…
View article: Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection?: Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire
Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection?: Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Côte d’Ivoire Open
Policy makers grapple with the optimal design of multidimensional strategies to improve poor households' livelihoods. To address financial constraints, are capital injections needed, or is savings mobilization sufficient This paper tests t…
View article: Do Public Works Programs have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs
Do Public Works Programs have Sustained Impacts? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs Open
Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have introduced public works programs that offer temporary cash-for-work opportunities to poor individuals. This paper reviews experimental evidence on the impacts of public works programs on p…
View article: Cash transfers, climatic shocks and resilience in the Sahel
Cash transfers, climatic shocks and resilience in the Sahel Open
Policy makers search for strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future climatic shocks. In this paper, we assess whether small regular cash transfers strengthen poor households' ability to mitigate the welfare effects…
View article: Replication package for "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?"
Replication package for "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?" Open
Replication package for EJ article "Transfers, Diversification and Household Risk Strategies: Can productive safety nets help households manage climatic variability?"
View article: Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire
Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire Open
Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world.They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants' employment, …
View article: Do Cash Transfers Foster Resilience? Evidence from Rural Niger
Do Cash Transfers Foster Resilience? Evidence from Rural Niger Open
Policy makers are increasingly
\n interested in strategies to promote resilience and mitigate
\n the effects of future climatic shocks. Cash transfer
\n programs have had widely documented positive welfare
\n impacts. They often also aim t…
View article: Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger
Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger Open
The methods to select safety net beneficiaries are the subject of frequent debates. Targeting assessments usually focus on efficiency by documenting the pre-program profile of selected beneficiaries. This study provides a more comprehensiv…
View article: Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger
Efficiency, Legitimacy, and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger Open
The methods to select safety net beneficiaries are the subject of frequent debates. Targeting assessments usually focus on efficiency by documenting the pre-program profile of selected beneficiaries. This study provides a more comprehensiv…
View article: Poor Households’ Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Niger
Poor Households’ Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Niger Open
Cash transfer programs have spread
\n rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and
\n reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of
\n cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as
\n Sub-Saharan Africa…
View article: Poor Households’ Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Niger
Poor Households’ Productive Investments of Cash Transfers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Niger Open
Cash transfers programs have spread rapidly as an instrument to raise household consumption and reduce poverty. Questions remain about the sustainability of cash transfer impacts in low-income settings such as Sub-Saharan Africa and, in pa…
View article: The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education an Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia
The Medium-Term Impact of Entrepreneurship Education an Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from University Graduates in Tunisia Open
Despite the widespread popularity of
\n entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its
\n effectiveness in improving employment outcomes over the
\n medium to long term. A potential time lag between
\n entrepreneurial intentions…
View article: Social Accountability and Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Social Accountability and Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from Uganda Open
Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? We look at whether providing so…
View article: Efficiency, Legitimacy and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger
Efficiency, Legitimacy and Impacts of Targeting Methods: Evidence from an Experiment in Niger Open
The methods to select safety net beneficiaries are the subject of frequent policy debates. This paper presents the results from a randomized experiment analyzing how efficiency, legitimacy, and short-term program effectiveness vary across …
View article: Social accountability and service delivery: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Social accountability and service delivery: Experimental evidence from Uganda Open
Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth. Can citizens in poor communities be empowered to demand better-quality public investments? We look at whether providing so…
View article: Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program
Creating new positions ? direct and indirect effects of a subsidized apprenticeship program Open
Evaluations of employment programs
\n usually focus on direct impacts on participants. Yet
\n employment programs can have a range of indirect effects
\n that are rarely quantified. This paper analyzes the impact
\n of a subsidized apprent…
View article: Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation Open
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through w…
View article: Impact Evaluation in Practice
Impact Evaluation in Practice Open
The book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorp…
View article: Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment among University Graduates
Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment among University Graduates Open
Entrepreneurship education has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. In Tunisia, a curricular reform created an entrepreneurship track providing business training and coaching to help university students p…