Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan et al.
In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities. Averaging across the countries, ab...
Joshua D. Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth M. King et al.
1 US studies in this mold include Green, Peterson, and Du (1996) and Rouse (1998), who evaluated a voucher lottery in Milwaukee. Rouse's estimates, which control for attrition, show modest increases in math scores among voucher recipients. Other US studies include Howell et al (2000), Myers et al (2...
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Edward Miguel, Jason Abaluck, Amrita Ahuja et al.
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and distributing doses. To limit virus transmission, its devastating impacts, and opportunities for further mutations, this mu...
Myron H. Nordquist
Preface Acknowledgments Setting the Context The Continental Shelf Regime under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Reflections after Thirty Years S. Jayakumar Part 1: Contemporary Uses of the Continental Shelf Offshore Wind Energy Development and Ecosystem-based Marine Management in the EU: Are...
Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Mularidharan et al.
We would like to thank Deon Filmer and Edmundo Murrugarra for their valuable comments. We would also like to thank the participants of the Teacher and Medical Provider Absence Workshop in Delhi, India January 2004 for their comments. Finally, we would like to thank Sanya Carleyolson for her invaluab...
Elizabeth Spier, Pia Rebello Britto, Terri Pigott, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain et al.
For a majority of the world's children, despite substantial increases in access to primary school, academic learning is neither occurring at expected rates nor supplying the basic foundational skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century. As of 2010, approximately 61 million primary school-age ch...