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Water and Human Well Being: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-11)
The Executive Session on Water and Human Well Being was convened by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Venice International University on July 20–21, 2009. This high-level gathering was organized to create a ...
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-08)
A randomized evaluation suggests that a program which provided official textbooks to randomly selected rural Kenyan primary schools did not increase test scores for the average student. In contrast, the previous literature ...
Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-07)
The G8 is considering committing to purchase vaccines against diseases concentrated in low-income countries (if and when desirable vaccines are developed) as a way to spur research and development on vaccines for these ...
What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting ...
Estimating the Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-04)
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises wages and generates two kinds of returns ...
Why is There No AIDS Vaccine?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-10)
We argue that differences in timing of drug and vaccine consumption will lead firms to be biased against developing vaccines. Vaccines are sold before consumers are infected, when they still have private information regarding ...
Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-12)
This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, ...
The Illusion of Sustainability
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-11)
Rather than provide development assistance indefinitely, foreign aid donors increasingly seek to help communities sustainably provide local public goods themselves. We examine various strategies for sustainably fighting ...
Incentives to Learn
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-10)
We report results from a randomized evaluation of a merit scholarship program for adolescent girls in Kenya. Girls who scored well on academic exams had their school fees paid and received a cash grant for school supplies. ...
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-09)
Eighty percent of the world's children live in developing countries. For economists working on education, the study of developing countries offers both policy questions of fundamental importance and a rich set of experiences ...