Publications by year (journal articles, books, book chapters, working papers, and datasets). 2008 Journal Articles
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Working Papers Journal Articles Dang, Hai-Anh H., and F. Halsey Rogers. 2008. “The Growing Phenomenon of Private Tutoring: Does It Deepen Human Capital, Widen Inequalities, or Waste Resources?” World Bank Research Observer 23(2): 161–200. Das, Jishnu, Quy-Toan Do, andJed Friedman. 2008. “Response to Comment on Mental Health and Poverty in Developing Countries: Revisiting the Relationship.”Social Science & Medicine 66(9): 2064–66. Das, Jishnu. 2008. “Low Income, Social Growth and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries.”New England Journal of Medicine 358(26): 2851–51. Das, Jishnu,Quy-Toan Do,Jed Friedman, and David McKenzie. 2008. "The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(2): 93-114. Das Gupta, Monica. 2008. “Can Biological Factors like Hepatitis Explain the Bulk of Gender Imbalance in China? A Review of the Evidence.”World Bank Research Observer 23(2): 201–17. de Walque, Damien. 2008. “Do Unsafe Tetanus Toxoid Injections Play a Significant Role in the Transmission of HIV/AIDS? Evidence from Seven African Countries.”Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) 84: 122–25. de Walque, Damien. 2008. “Review of the Demography of Armed Conflict, 2006, edited by Helge Brunborg, Ewa Tabeau and Henrik Urdal.”Population Studies 62(1): 122–23. Eggleston, Karen, Li Ling, Meng Qingyue, Magnus Lindelow, and Adam Wagstaff. 2008. “Health Service Delivery in China: A Literature Review.”Health Economics 17(2): 149–65. Filmer, Deon P.2008. “Disability, Poverty, and Schooling in Developing Countries: Results from 14 Household Surveys.”World Bank Economic Review 22(1): 141–63. Filmer, Deon P ., and Norbert Schady. 2008. “Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia.”Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(3): 581–617. Glewwe, Paul, and Hai-Anh Dang. 2008. “The Impact of Decentralized Data Entry on the Quality of Household Survey Data in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Vietnam.”World Bank Economic Review 22(1): 165–85. Goldstein, Markus, and Christopher Udry. 2008. “The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana.”Journal of Political Economy 116(6): 981–1022. Gultiano, Socorro, and Elizabeth M. King. 2008. “A Better Start in Life: Evaluation Results from an Early Childhood Development Program.”Philippine Journal of Development 33(1): 101–28. Heckelman, Jac, and Stephen Knack. 2008. “Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Policy Reform.”Economica 75(299): 524–48. Linnemayr, Sebastian, Harold H. Alderman, and Abdoulaye Kane. 2008. “Determinants of Malnutrition in Senegal: Individual, Household, Community Variables, and Their Interaction.”Economics and Human Biology 6(2): 252–63. Ravallion, Martin, andDominique van de Walle. 2008. “Land and Poverty in Reforming East Asia.”Finance and Development 45(3): 38–41. Ravallion, Martin, andDominique van de Walle. 2008. “Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam’s Agrarian Transition?”Journal of Development Economics 87(2): 191–209. Schady, Norbert, and M. Caridad Araujo. 2008. “Cash Transfers, Conditions, and School Enrollment in Ecuador.” Economía 8(2): 43–70. Thirumurthy, Harsha, Joshua Zivin, andMarkus Goldstein. 2008. “The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya.”The Journal of Human Resources 43(3): 511–52. Wagstaff, Adam, and Magnus Lindelow. 2008. “Can Insurance Increase Financial Risk? The Curious Case of Health Insurance in China.”Journal of Health Economics 27(4): 990–1005.
Amin, Samia, and Markus Goldstein, eds. 2008. Data Against Natural Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction. Washington, DC: World Bank. Download BookDang, Hai-Anh. 2008. Private Tutoring in Vietnam: An Investigation of its Causes and Impacts with Policy Implications. Saarbrucken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller Publishing House. Gauri, Varun, and Daniel Brinks, eds. 2008. Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press. Order Book O’Donnell, Owen, Eddy Van Doorslaer,Adam Wagstaff, and Magnus Lindelow. 2008.Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation. Washington, DC: World Bank. Ravallion, Martin, andDominique van de Walle. 2008. Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam. Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapters in Books Alderman, Harold H., Jere Behrman, and John Hoddinott. 2008. “Health, Nutrition and Economic Development.” InInternational Handbook of Development Economics, Vol.1 (Chap. 25), ed. Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jaime Ros. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. Alderman, Harold H., and Patrice Engle. 2008. “The Synergy of Nutrition and ECD Interventions in Africa.” InAfrica’s Future—Africa’s Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in Sub-Saharan Africa , ed. Marito Garcia, Alan Pence, and Judith Evans. Washington, DC: World Bank. Benjamin, Dwayne, Loren Brandt,John T. Giles, and Sangui Wang. 2008. “Income Inequality during China’s Economic Transition.” In China 's Great Economic Transformation, ed. Loren Brandt and Thomas Rawski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Das, Jishnu,and Kenneth Leonard. 2008. “Using Vignettes to Measure the Quality of Health Care.” InAre You Being Served: New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery, ed. Samia Amin, Jishnu Das, andMarkus Goldstein. Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan/World Bank.
Order Book | Download Book Filmer, Deon P. 2008. “Lessons from School Surveys in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.” In Are You Being Served: New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery, ed. Samia Amin, Jishnu Das, and Markus Goldstein. Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan/World Bank. Order Book | Download Book Gauri, Varun, and Daniel Brinks. 2008. “The Elements of Legalization and the Triangular Shape of Social and Economic Rights.” In Courting Social Justice, ed.Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks. New York: Cambridge University Press. Gauri, Varun, and Daniel Brinks. 2008. “A New Policy Landscape: Legalizing Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World.” InCourting Social Justice, ed.Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks. New York: Cambridge University Press. King, Elizabeth M., and Jere Behrman. 2008. “Program Impact and Variation in the Duration of Exposure.” In Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery, ed. Samia Amin,Jishnu Das, and Markus Goldstein. Washington, DC: Palgrave Macmillan/World Bank.
Order Book |Download Book Knack, Stephen. 2008. “Governance and Growth.” InGood Governance and Developing Countries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. K. Kotschau, T. Marauhn. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Knack, Stephen, and Aminur Rahman. 2008. “Donor Fragmentation.” InReinventing Foreign Aid, ed. William Easterly. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Leung, G. M., Adam Wagstaff, Magnus Lindelow, and J.R. Lu. 2008. “The Health Systems of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.” InInternational Encyclopedia of Public Health, ed. K. Heggenhougen. San Diego: Academic Press. Lindelow, Magnus, and Adam Wagstaff. 2008. “Assessment of Health Facility Performance: An Introduction to Data and Measurement Issues.” In. Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery, ed. Samia Amin,Jishnu Das, andMarcus Goldstein. Washington DC: Palgrave Macmillan/World Bank.
Order Book | Download Book Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge, Baoyun Qiao, Shuilin Wang, and Heng-Fu Zou. 2008. “Expenditure Assignments in China: Challenges and Policy Options.” InPublic Finance in China: Reform and Growth for a Harmonious Society, ed. Lou Jiwei and Shuilin Wang. Washington, DC: World Bank. Orazem, Peter F., andElizabeth M. King. 2008. “Schooling in Developing Countries: The Roles of Supply, Demand and Government Policy (Chap.55).” InHandbook of Development Economics, ed. T.P. Schultz and J. Strauss. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers. Wagstaff, Adam, and Magnus Lindelow. 2008. “Health Reform in Rural China: Challenges and Options.” InPublic Finance in China: Reform and Growth for a Harmonious Society, ed. Lou Jiwei and Shuilin Wang. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Conferences & Seminars Impact Evaluation of HIV Interventions in Africa Session at the International AIDS Conference, August 3-8, 2008, Mexico
The session began with an overview of impact evaluation and why it is a useful tool to assess effectiveness of interventions. This was followed by presentations of completed, ongoing and planned impact evaluations in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya.
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Gender, Poverty and Demography Workshop
March 25, 2008, Washington, DC
How do demographic processes shape gender and poverty outcomes? This conference discussed the papers prepared for a research program examining the dynamics of gender and poverty under four demographic scenarios: very young rapidly growing populations; aging populations; populations that have lost significant proportions of young adults due to disease and conflict; and populations with low dependency ratios. The workshop was co-organized by Development Research Group and Gender and Development Unit (PRMGE). The research program is funded by the World Bank and the Government of Norway.
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Socioeconomic Outcomes of Fertility and Reproductive Behaviors and Outcomes
April 22, 2008, Washington, DC
This workshop discussed the approaches and preliminary results of a research program on the relationships between reproductive behaviors and outcomes and economic development.
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Evaluating Human Development Projects: What Works, What Doesn't, Why?
Human Development Forum, November 3-5, 2008, Washington, DC
A poster session showcasing 13 Human Development impact evaluations.
Posters Measuring the Quality of Service Delivery in Health and Education: Recent Advances
Human Development Forum, November 3-5, 2008, World Bank Washington, DC
This session presented recent advances in measurement of the quality of service delivery in education and health in developing countries.
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Evaluating the Impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence
(Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop)
December 1-5, 2008, Manila, Philippines
The workshop was a highly interactive mix of small and large group sessions involving the “hands on” application of what is learned throughout the week. It was co-sponsored and co-organized with the Human Development Vice-Presidency and the East Asia & Pacific Region.
Seminars Empirics of Governance
May 2008, Washington, DC
The aim of this seminar was to create a common understanding of the complexities involved in measuring and using governance indicators, and the need to move ahead even when perfection is not attainable, to deepen the interaction between producers of indicators, researchers and operational users, and to help develop an operational agenda for the development of indicators, their operational use within the Bank, and priority research activities. Organized by Development Economics Vice President's office with input from the Development Research Group.
Agenda and presentations Poverty and Applied Microeconomics Seminars (internal only)
Organizer: Dominique van de Walle( research@worldbank.org)
Data Fiscal Policy and Electoral Politics in the States of India
This database is an annual panel of 15 major states of India over the period 1972-1995, and contains fiscal variables obtained from theReserve Bank of India Bulletin and electoral variables from Butler, Lahiri, and Roy (1995). It also contains demographic and economic characteristics, and a state-level price index to convert all fiscal variables into real terms from a data set put together at the World Bank, which is described in detail in Özler and others (1996). Contact: Stuti Khemani (research@worldbank.org)
The Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) Project Data
These datasets were collected from 823 schools in 112 villages in 3 districts of the Punjab province of Pakistan. The data were designed to collect information about the educational environment facing children and their parents, including data from school surveys, teacher surveys, child tests, and household surveys. The data are available from http://www.leapsproject.org.
Contact: Jishnu Das (research@worldbank.org)
Poverty and Health DatasetThis dataset provides tabulations of health indicators by wealth quintile, along with summary statistics. Tabulations are available for 120 health, nutrition and population indicators, for 56 countries. Data are available by country and by indicator. Approximately half the country datasets provide tabulations for two or more years. The data are drawn from 95 household surveys undertaken in 56 low- and middle-income countries by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) project between 1990 and 2005. The dataset is a joint product between the World Bank’s Development Research Group and Human Development Network (Health Financing). Acknowledgement should be to: Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, Eldaw Suliman, Adam Wagstaff, and Agbessi Amouzou. 2007.Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition, and Population (Washington, DC: The World Bank).
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Contact: Adam Wagstaff (research@worldbank.org)
Educational Attainment and Enrollment Around the World
This database reports statistics and graphs on equity in years of schooling completed by age cohort; enrollment by age; grade survival; and school participation by level and age. Equity is determined along the dimensions of economic status quintiles, gender, rural, or urban residence. The database is updated regularly as new source household survey data become available, and currently includes statistics derived from 268 datasets from 96 countries. The database is accessible at http://econ.worldbank.org/projects/edattain.
Contact: Deon Filmer ( research@worldbank.org)
Outreach King, Elizabeth M., and Bjorn Lomborg. 2008. “Women and Development.”Business World, June. King, Elizabeth M., and Bjorn Lomborg. 2008. “Giving Girls and Women the Tools to Build a Better Tomorrow.” TaipeiTimes, June. King, Elizabeth M., and Bjorn Lomborg. 2008. “Gender Inequality Stifles Development.” South China Morning Post, June. Quisumbing, Agnes, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Lucy Bassett, Michael Usnick, Lauren Pandolfelli, Cheryl Morden, andHarold H. Alderman. 2008. “Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Price Crisis.” International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC.
Working Papers Filmer, Deon P., and Kinnon Scott. 2008. “ Assessing Asset Indices.” Policy Research Working Paper 4605, World Bank, Washington, DC. Khemani, Stuti, and Waly Wane. 2008. “ Populist Fiscal Policy.” Policy Research Working Paper 4762, World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Working Papers Journal Articles in 2007 Alderman, Harold H., Jere R. Behrman, and John Hoddinott. 2007. “Economic and Nutritional Analyses Offer Substantial Synergies for Understanding Human Nutrition.” Journal of Nutrition 137(3): 537-44. Alderman, Harold H. 2007. “Improving Nutrition through Community Growth Promotion: Longitudinal Study of the Nutrition and Early Child Development Program in Uganda.” World Development 35(8): 1376-89. Banerjee, Abhijit, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Dan Keniston, Stuti Khemani, and Marc Shotland. 2007. “Can Information Campaigns Raise Awareness and Local Participation in Primary Education?” Economic and Political Weekly 42(15): 1365-72. Bourguignon, Francois J., and F. Halsey Rogers. 2007. “Distributional Effects of Educational Improvements: Are We Using the Wrong Model?” Economics of Education Review 26(6): 735-46. Britto, Pia Rebello, Patrice Engle, and Harold H. Alderman. 2007. “Early Intervention and Caregiving: Evidence from the Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Program.” Child Health and Development 1(2): 112-33. Buvinic, Mayra, and Elizabeth M. King. 2007. “Smart Economics.” Finance and Development 44(2): 6-11. Dang, Hai-Anh H. 2007. “The Determinants and Impact of Private Tutoring Classes in Vietnam.” Economics of Education Review 26(6): 684-99. Das, Jishnu, and Paul Gertler. 2007. “Variations in Practice Quality in Five Low-Income Countries: A Conceptual Overview.” Health Affairs (Web Exclusive) 26(3): 296-309. Das, Jishnu, and Thomas Pave Sohnesen. 2007. “Variations in Doctor Effort: Evidence From Paraguay.” Health Affairs (Web Exclusive) 26(3): 324-37. Das, Jishnu, and Jeffrey S. Hammer. 2007. “Location, Location, Location: Residence, Wealth, and the Quality of Medical Care In Delhi, India.” Health Affairs (Web Exclusive) 26(3): 338-51. Das, Jishnu, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, and Pramila Krishnan. 2007. “Teacher Shocks and Student Learning: Evidence from Zambia.” Journal of Human Resources 42(4): 795-819. Das, Jishnu, and Jeffrey S. Hammer. 2007. “Money for Nothing: The Dire Straits of Medical Practice in Delhi, India.” Journal of Development Economics 83(1): 1-36. Das Gupta, Monica, and Woojin Chung. 2007. “The Decline of Son Preference in South Korea: The Roles of Development and Public Policy.” Population and Development Review 33(4): 757-83. Das Gupta, Monica, Samuel Preston, Vijayendra Rao, and Tvs Sekher. 2007. “P. N. Mari Bhat: An Intellectual Tribute.” Economic and Political Weekly 42(36): 3611-15. de Walque, Damien. 2007. “Sero-Discordant Couples in Five African Countries: Implications for Prevention Strategies.” Population and Development Review 33(3): 501-23. de Walque, Damien. 2007. “Does Education Affect Smoking Behaviors? Evidence Using the Vietnam Draft as an Instrument for College Education.” Journal of Health Economics 26(1): 877-95. de Walque, Damien. 2007. “How Does the Impact of an HIV/AIDS Information Campaign Vary with Educational Attainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda.” Journal of Development Economics 84(2): 686-714. Filmer, Deon P. 2007. “Autonomy, Participation and Learning: Findings from Argentine Schools, and Implications for Decentralization Education Economics.” Education Economics 15(1): 103-27. Filmer, Deon P. 2007. “If You Build It, Will They Come? School Availability and School Enrolment in 21 Poor Countries.” Journal of Development Studies 43(5): 901-28. Giles, John T., and Kyeongwon Yoo. 2007. “Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks, and Household Consumption Decisions: An Empirical Analysis Using Household Panel Data from Rural China.” Review of Economics and Statistics 89(3): 534-51. Giles, John T., and Ren Mu. 2007. “Elderly Parent Health and the Migration Decisions of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China.” Demography 44(2): 265-88. Gultiano, Socorro, and Elizabeth M. King. 2007. “A Better Start in Life: Evaluation Results from an Early Childhood Development Program.” Philippine Journal of Development 33(1): 101-28. Keefer, Philip E., and Stephen Knack. 2007. “Boondoggles, Rent-seeking and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment under Unaccountable Governments.” Review of Economics and Statistics 89(2): 566-72. Knack, Stephen, and Aminur Rahman. 2007. “Donor Fragmentation and Bureaucratic Quality in Aid Recipients.” Journal of Development Economics 83(1): 176-97. Knack, Stephen. 2007. “Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.” Journal of Public Policy 27(3): 255-91. Paxson, Christina, and Norbert Schady. 2007. “Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador: The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting.” Journal of Human Resources 42(1): 49-84. Schady, Norbert. 2007. “Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Economia 6(2): 185-225. van de Walle, Dominique, and Ren Mu. 2007. “Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid: Microevidence for Vietnam.” Journal of Development Economics 84(2): 667-84. Wagstaff, Adam, and Shengchao Yu. 2007. “Do Health Sector Reforms Have Their Intended Impacts? The World Bank's Health VIII Project in Gansu province, China.” Journal of Health Economics 26(3): 505-35. Wagstaff, Adam. 2007. “The Economic Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Vietnam.” Journal of Health Economics 26(1): 82-100. Wagstaff, Adam. 2007. “Health Systems in East Asia: What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?” Health Economics 16(5): 441-56. Wagstaff, Adam, and Magnus Lindelow. 2007. “Progressivity in the Financing of Decentralized Government Health Programs: A Decomposition.” Health Economics 16(11): 1271-75. Zou, Heng-Fu, and Qinghua Zhang. 2007. “Return to Education, Productivity, and Economic Growth in China.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 9(3): 293-308. Zou, Heng-Fu, and William Smith. 2007. “Consumption and Risk with Hyperbolic Discounting.” Economics Letters 96(2): 153-60.
Books in 2007 Chapters in Books in 2007 Alderman, Harold H., and Susan Horton. 2007. “The Economics of Addressing Nutritional Anemia.” In Nutritional Anemia, ed. Klaus Kraemer, Michael Zimmerman. Zurich: Sight & Life Press. Behrman, Jere, Harold H. Alderman, and John Hoddinott. 2007. “Hunger and Malnutrition.” In Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits, ed. Bjorn Lomborg. New York: Cambridge University Press. Buvinic, Mayra, Elizabeth M. King, Andrew R. Morrison, and Nistha Sinha. 2007. “Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.” In Global Monitoring Report 2007, ed. Mark Sundberg. Washington, DC: World Bank. Das Gupta, Monica. 2007. “Public Health in India: An Overview.” In The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, ed. Kaushik Basu. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Gauri, Varun, Chris Beyrer, and Denise A. Vaillancourt. 2007. “From Human Rights Principles to Public Health Practice: HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil.” In Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches, ed. Chris Beyrer. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. Khemani, Stuti. 2007. “Can Delegation Promote Fiscal Discipline in a Federation? Evidence from Fiscal Performance in the Indian States.” In Institutions and Norms in Economic Development, ed. Mark Gradstein and Kai Konrad. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Khemani, Stuti. 2007. "Can Information Campaigns Overcome Political Obstacles to Serving the Poor?” In The Politics of Service Delivery in Democracies: Better Access for the Poor, ed. Shanta Devarajan and Ingrid Widlund. Stockholm: Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
King, Elizabeth M., and Dominique van de Walle. 2007. “Girls in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Ethnic Affiliation, Poverty, and Location.” In Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World, ed. Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development.
Outreach in 2007 Alderman, Harold H., and John Hoddinott. 2007. “ Growth-Promoting Social Safety Nets.” 2020 Focus Briefs on the World's Poor and Hungry People. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C. Gauri, Varun, and Mattias Lundberg. 2007. “ Youth and Citizenship.” World Bank Online Research Brief, February.
Working Papers in 2007 - Gwatkin, Davidson, Shea Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, Eldaw Suliman, Adam Wagstaff, and Agbessi Amouzou. 2007. “Socio-Economic Differences in Health, Nutrition and Population Within Developing Countries: An Overview.” Country Report on Health, Nutrition, and Population. HNP Departmental Working Paper Series, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
- Lambert, Sylvie, Martin Ravallion, and Dominique van de Walle. 2007. “A Micro-Decomposition Analysis of the Macroeconomic Determinants of Human Development.” Policy Research Working Paper 4358, World Bank, Washington, DC.
- Schady, Norbert, and Jose Rosero. 2007. “Are Cash Transfers Made to Women Spent like Other Sources of Income?” Policy Research Working Paper 4282, World Bank, Washington, DC.
- Wagstaff, Adam. 2007. “Health Insurance for the Poor: Initial Impacts of Vietnam’s Health Care Fund for the Poor.” Policy Research Working Paper 4134, World Bank, Washington, DC.
- Wagstaff, Adam, Magnus Lindelow, Gao Jun, Lingzhi Xu, and Qian Juncheng. 2007. “Extending Health Insurance to the Rural Population: An Impact Evaluation of China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme.” Policy Research Working Paper 4150, World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Journal Articles in 2006 Ainsworth, Martha, and Deon P. Filmer. 2006. "Inequalities in Children’s Schooling: AIDS, Orphanhood, Poverty, and Gender." World Development 34(6): 1099–1128. Alderman, Harold H., John Hoddinotty, and Bill Kinsey. 2006. "Long-Term Consequences of Early Childhood Malnutrition." Oxford Economic Papers 58(3): 450–74. Alderman, Harold H., and David Stifel. 2006. "The "Glass of Milk" Subsidy Program and Malnutrition in Peru." World Bank Economic Review 20(3): 421–28. Alderman, Harold H., and Jere Behrman. 2006. "Reducing the Incidence of Low Birth Weight in Low-Income Countries Has Substantial Economic Benefits." World Bank Research Observer 12(1): 25–48. Alderman, Harold H., Hans Hoogeveen, and Mariacristina Rossi. 2006. "Reducing Child Malnutrition in Tanzania: Combined Effects of Income Growth and Program Interventions." Economics and Human Biology 4(1): 1–23. Alderman, Harold H., Joseph Konde-Lule, Isaac Sebuliba, Donald A. P. Bundy, and Andrew Hall. 2006. "Effect on Weight Gain of Routinely Giving Albendazole to Preschool Children during Child Health Days in Uganda: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial." British Medical Journal 333(122): 1–5. Alderman, Harold H., and Trina S. Haque. 2006. "Countercyclical Safety Nets for the Poor and Vulnerable." Food Policy 31(4): 372–83. Andrabi, Tahir, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, and Tristan Zajonc. 2006. "Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data." Comparative Education Review 50(3): 446–73. Chaudhury, Nazmul, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan, and F. Halsey Rogers. 2006. "Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(1): 91–116. Das Gupta, Monica, Michele Gragnolati, Caryn Bredenkamp, Yi-Kyoung Lee, and Meera Shekar. 2006. "ICDS and Persistent Undernutrition: Strategies to Enhance the Impact." Economic and Political Weekly 41(12): 1193–1201. Das Gupta, Monica. 2006. "Cultural versus Biological Factors in Explaining Asia’s ‘Missing Women’: Response to Oster." Population and Development Review 32(2): 328–32. Clarke, George R., L. Colin Xu, and Heng-fu Zou. 2006. "Finance and Income Equality: What Do the Data Tell Us?" Southern Economic Journal 72(3): 578–96. de Walque, Damien. 2006. "The Socio-Demographic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia." Population Studies 60(2): 223–31.
Filmer, Deon P. 2006. "Gender and Wealth Disparities in Schooling: Evidence from 44 Countries." International Journal of Educational Research 43(6): 351–69. Gauri, Varun, and Evan Lieberman. 2006. "Boundary Institutions and HIV/AIDS Policy in Brazil and South Africa." Studies in Comparative International Development 41(3): 47–73. Ghuman, Sharon, Jere R. Behrman, Socorro Gultiano, Graeme Armecin, Isabelita Bas, Paulita Duazo, Elizabeth M. King, and Nanette Lee. 2006. "Early Childhood Development: A Review of Findings from a Longitudinal Study in the Philippines." East Asian Economic Perspectives 17(2): 1–24. Khemani, Stuti. 2006. "Does Delegation of Fiscal Policy to an Independent Agency Make a Difference? Evidence from Intergovernmental Transfers in India." Journal of Development Economics 82(2): 464–84. Khemani, Stuti. 2006. "Local Government Accountability for Health Service Delivery in Nigeria." Journal of African Economies 15(2): 285–312. Loevinsohn, Benjamin, Rathavuth Hong, and Varun Gauri. 2006. "Will More Inputs Improve the Delivery of Health Services? Analysis of District Vaccination Coverage in Pakistan." International Journal of Health Planning and Management 21(1): 1–10. Mu, Ren, Zhehui Luo, and Xiaobo Zhang. 2006. "Famine and Overweight in China." Review of Agricultural Economics 28(3): 296–304. Ravallion, Martin, and Dominique van de Walle. 2006. "Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition." The Economic Journal 116(116): 924–42. Reinikka, Ritva S., and Jakob Svensson. 2006. "Using Micro Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption." World Development 34(2): 359–70. Suryadarma, Daniel, Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto, and F. Halsey Rogers. 2006. "Improving Student Performance in Public Primary Schools in Developing Countries: Evidence from Indonesia." Education Economics 14(4): 401–29.
Books in 2006 Das Gupta, Monica, T.V. Sekher, Shashanka Bhide, and Nazrul Islam. 2006. Public Health and Panchayati Raj Institutions in Karnataka. Bangalore: Institute for Social and Economic Change. Das Gupta, Monica, Michele Gragnolati, Meera Shekar, and Yi-Kyoung Lee. 2006. India’s Undernourished Children: A Call for Reform and Action. Washington, DC: World Bank. Pradhan, Mennon, Vicente B. Paqueo, Elizabeth M. King, Deon P. Filmer, Scott E. Guggenheim, and Anne-Lise Klausen. 2006. Making Services Work for the Poor in Indonesia: Focusing on Achieving Results on the Ground. Jakarta: World Bank. Zou, Heng-Fu, Anwar M. Shah, and Chunli Shen. 2006. Regional Disparities in China. Beijing: The People’s Press. Zou, Heng-Fu. 2006. Studies on Macroeconomics. Beijing: Peking University Press.
Chapters in Books in 2006 Ahmad, Juniad, Shantayanan Devarajan, and Stuti Khemani. 2006. "Decentralization and Service Delivery." In Handbook of Fiscal Federalism, ed. Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Gauri, Varun. 2006. "Economics and the Right to Basic Services." In The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 2: Law, Equity, and Development, ed. Ana Palacio. Washington, DC: World Bank. Khemani, Stuti. 2006. "The Political Economy of Equalization Transfers." In Fiscal Equalization: Challenges in the Design of Intergovernmental Transfers, ed. Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez, and Robert Searle. New York: Springer. Rogers, F. Halsey. 2006. "Charting and Sustaining Progress in Income Poverty Reduction." In Global Monitoring Report 2006: Millennium Development Goals: Strengthening Mutual Accountability, Aid, Trade, and Governance. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Outreach in 2006 Working Papers in 2006 Graeme, Armecin, Jere Behrman, Paulita Duazo, Sharon Ghuman, Socorro Gultiano, Elizabeth M. King, and Nanette Lee. 2006. "Early Childhood Development through an Integrated Program: Evidence from the Philippines." Policy Research Working Paper 3922, World Bank, Washington, DC.
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Working Papers Journal Articles in 2005 Alderman, Harold. 2005. “Linkages between Poverty Reduction Strategies and Child Nutrition: An Asian Perspective.” Economic and Political Weekly 40: 4837–4842. Alderman, Harold, Luc Christiaensen*, and Takashi Yamano. 2005. “Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87: 273–288. Das, Jishnu, and Jeffrey Hammer*. 2005. “Which Doctor? Combining Vignettes and Item Response to Measure Clinical Competence.” Journal of Development Economics 78: 348–383. Das, Jishnu, Quy-Toan Do, and Berk Ozler. 2005. “Reassessing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs.” World Bank Research Observer 20: 57–80. Das Gupta, Monica, and Peyvand Khaleghian. 2005. “Public Management and the Essential Public Health Functions.” World Development 33(7): 1083–1099. Das Gupta, Monica. 2005. “Explaining Asia’s ‘Missing Women’: A New Look at the Data.” Population and Development Review 31(3): 529–535. Das Gupta, Monica. 2005. “Public Health in India: Dangerous Neglect.” Economic and Political Weekly 40 (9): 5159–5165. Das Gupta, Monica, Michael Lokshin, Michele Gragnolati*, and Oleksiy Ivaschenko*. 2005. “Improving Child Nutrition: The Integrated Child Development Services in India.” Development & Change 36(4): 613–640. de Walque, Damien. 2005. “Selective Mortality during the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia.” Population and Development Review 31(2): 351–368. de Walque, Damien, Jessica S. Nakiyingi-Miiro, June Busingye, and Jimmy A. Whitworth. 2005. “Changing Association between Schooling Levels and HIV-1 Infection Over 11 Years in a Rural Population Cohort in South-west Uganda.” Tropical Medicine and International Health 10(10): 993–1001. Filmer, Deon. 2005. “Fever and Its Treatment among the More and Less Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Health Policy and Planning 20(6): 337–346. Filmer, Deon, Elizabeth King, and Dominique van De Walle. 2005. “Testing for Pay and Promotion Bias in an International Organization.” International Journal of Manpower 26(5): 404–420. Gauri, Varun, and Julia Galef. 2005. “NGOs in Bangladesh: Activities, Resources, and Governance.” World Development 33 (12, December): 2045–2065. Gauri, Varun, and Anna Fruttero. 2005. “The Strategic Choices of NGOs: Location Decisions in Rural Bangladesh.” Journal of Development Studies 41(5, July): 759–787. Ghuman, Sharon, Jere Behrman, Judith Borja, Socorro Gultiano, and Elizabeth King. 2005. “Family Background, Service Providers, and Early Childhood Development in the Philippines: Proxies and Interactions.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(1,October): 129–164.
Keefer, Philip and Stuti Khemani. 2005. “Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services” World Bank Research Observer 20: 1-27, 2005 Paxson, Christina, and Norbert Schady. 2005. “Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru.” World Bank Economic Review 19(2): 203–23. Reinikka, Ritva*, and Jakob Svensson. 2005. “Using Micro Surveys to Measure and Explain Corruption.” World Development 33(1): 359–370. Rogers, F. Halsey, Nazmul Chaudhury*, Jeffrey Hammer*, Michael Kremer, and Karthik Muralidharan. 2005. “Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot.” Journal of the European Economic Association 3(2–3, April-May): 658–667. Stifel, David, and Harold Alderman. 2005. “Targeting At The Margin: The ‘Glass Of Milk’ Subsidy Program In Peru.” Journal of Development Studies 41(5):839–864. Svensson, Jakob, and Ritva Reinikka*. 2005. “Fighting Corruption to Improve Schooling:Evidence from a Newspaper Campaign in Uganda.” Journal of European Economic Association 3(2–3): 259–267. Svensson, Jakob. 2005. “Eight Questions about Corruption.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(3): 19–42. Wagstaff, Adam. 2005. “The Bounds of the Concentration Index When the Variable of Interest is Binary, with an Application to Immunization Inequality.” Health Economics 14(4): 429–432. Wagstaff, Adam. 2005. “Inequality Decomposition and Geographic Targeting with Applications to China and Vietnam.” Health Economics 14: 649–663. Zou, Heng-Fu, and Jing Jin. 2005. “Fiscal decentralization, revenue and expenditure assignments, and growth in China.” Journal of Asian Economics 16: 1047–1064.
Knack, Steve, and Phil Keefer. “Boondoggles, Rent-seeking and Political Checks and Balances: Public Investment Under Unaccountable Governments.” Review of Economics and Statistics. Rogers, F. Halsey, Nazmul Chaudhury*, Jeffrey Hammer*, Michael Kremer, and Karthik Muralidharan. “Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. Svensson, Jakob, and Ray Fisman. “Are Corruption and Taxation Really Harmful to Growth? Firm Level Evidence?” Journal of Development Economics. Svensson, Jakob, and Min Shi. “Political Budget Cycles: Do They Differ Across Countries and Why?” Journal of Public Economics. van de Walle, Dominique, and Martin Ravallion. “Land Reallocation in Agrarian Transition.” The Economic Journal, October 2006. Zou, Heng-fu. “Finance and income inequality: Test of alternative theories.” Southern Economic Journal 72(3): 578–596, 2006.
Books in 2005 - Rogers, F. Halsey, Nicholas Stern, and Jean-Jacques Dethier. 2005. Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Chapters in Books in 2005 Alderman, Harold, and Milla McLachlan. 2005. “The World Bank’s Nutrition Strategy.” In Manfred Schulz and Uwe Kracht, eds., Food and Nutrition Security in the Process of Globalization and Urbanization. Spektrum 84, Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries. Lit Publisher, Münster. Alderman, Harold, Jere Behrman, and John Hoddinott. 2005. “Nutrition, Malnutrition, and Economic Growth.” In Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais, eds., Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Gauri, Varun. 2005. “Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries.” In Philip Alston and Mary Robinson, eds., Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement. Oxford University Press. Gauri, Varun, James Cercone, and Rodrigo Briceño. 2005. “Contracting Primary Health Care Services: The Case of Costa Rica.” In Gerry La Forgia, ed., Health Systems Innovation in Central America: Lessons and Impact of New Approaches. World Bank Working Paper 57. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
Gauri, Varun. 2005. “Are Incentives Everything? Payment to Health Care Providers.” In Alex Preker and Jack Langenbrunner, eds., Public Ends, Private Means: Strategic Purchasing of Health Services. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Gwatkin, Davidson, Adam Wagstaff, and Abdo Yazbeck*. 2005. “What Did the Reaching the Poor Studies Find?” In Davidson Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, Abdo Yazbeck, eds., Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. King, Elizabeth, and Susana Cordeiro-Guerra. 2005. “Education Reforms in East Asia: Policy, Process and Impact.” In Roland White, eds., East Asia Decentralizes: Making Local Government Work. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Knack, Steve. 2005. “Empowerment as a Positive-Sum Game.” In Deepa Narayan, ed., Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Knack, Steve, and Philip Keefer. 2005. “Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics.” In Claude Menard and Mary Shirley, eds., Handbook of New Institutional Economics. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Miguel, Edward. 2005. “Health, Education, and Economic Development.” In G. Lopez-Casasnovas, B. Rivera, and L. Currais, eds., Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. Wagstaff, Adam, and Hugh Waters. 2005. “How Were the Reaching the Poor Studies Undertaken?” In Davidson Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, and Abdo S. Yazbeck., eds., Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Waly Wane. 2005. “The Theory and Practice of Conditionality: A Literature Review.” In Review of World Bank Conditionality. Operations Policy and Country Services. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Yazbeck, Abdo, Adam Wagstaff, and Davidson Gwatkin*. 2005. “Why Were the Reaching the Poor Studies Undertaken?” In Davidson Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, and Abdo Yazbeck*, eds., Reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Zou, Heng-Fu. 2005. “Product innovation, capital accumulation, and endogenous growth.” In Yun Kwan and Eden Yu, eds., Critical Issues in China’s Growth and Development. Ashgate.
Datasets in 2005 Educational Attainment around the World Provides country-level results on education inequalities based on Demographic and Health Surveys, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, and Integrated Household Surveys (such as those from the Living Standards Measurement Study).(Deon Filmer) Nigeria - Decentralized Service Delivery Survey (Health) This public expenditure tracking and quantitative facility survey provides data on 15 local government areas, 100 primary health facilities in Lagos State, and 152 in Kogi State. Data used to assess how budgeted allocations translate into actual service delivery in these two states. (Stuti Khemani) Papua New Guinea - Service Delivery Survey (Education) The survey (April and May 2002) covers 214 primary schools in 19 districts across 8 provinces (out of 20) and combines the school survey with household and other micro surveys to assess service delivery systems in education. (Deon Filmer) Country Reports on health, nutrition, and population (HNP) Illustrates health conditions in 56 low- and middle-income countries based on all 78 DHS surveys undertaken in about 1990–2002; contains also mean values for each wealth quintile and summary statistics of household indicators. (Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea Rutstein, Kiersten Johnson, Eldaw Abdalla Suliman, and Adam Wagstaff) Teacher and Medical Provider Absence Database Includes survey data from Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda; includes more than 40,000 observations of provider absence-presence, and detailed information on each provider and each school or health clinic [Available on request from F. Halsey Rogers] NGOs as Service Providers: Data from Bangladesh. Data collected in 2002 and 2003 includes information on activities, sources and uses of Research Highlights 2005: Publications of the funds, staffing, and network linkages for a random sample of over 300 NGOs. Each NGO data set is linked to a randomly selected focus group of NGO users that evaluates its work.[Available on request from Varun Gauri.]
Outreach in 2005 Coady, David, Deon Filmer, and Davidson Gwatkin. 2005. “PROGRESA for Progress: Mexico’s Health, Nutrition, and Education Program.” Development Outreach (WBI, World Bank), May. Das, Jishnu, Piet Buys, and Tara Vishwanath. 2005. Relief and Information System for Earthquakes Pakistan. The website, www.risepak.com, is the result of a collaborative effort between people from the World Bank, the Government of Pakistan, academic institutions in the United States and Pakistan, as well as private enterprise. Bank web article, October 2005. Das, Jishnu. “A New Look at Quality of Health Care in Low-Income Countries,” DECRG web article, February 2006. Elizabeth King. “Education in Indonesia: Managing the Transition to Decentralization,” Indonesian edition, April 2005. Reinikka, Ritva. 2005. “Ethics and transparency: challenges for school systems.” International Institute for Educational Planning Newsletter, October-December 2005 (Vol. XXlll, No. 4), UNESCO. Rogers, F. Halsey. “Missing in Action: Teacher and Medical Provider Absence in Developing Countries,” DECRG web article, October 2005. Schady, Norbert. “Do Macroeconomic Crises Affect Schooling and Child Health? Evidence from Peru,” DECRG web article, November 2005. Schady, Norbert. Boxes 2.3 & 2.4 in the 2006 World Development Report Equity and Development provide background note on changes in the world distribution of life expectancy and school attainment since 1960; supervised preparation of database based on household surveys from more than 100 countries to calculate changes in the mean and distribution of schooling attainment across birth cohorts. Unauthored, Education Policy Notes. Philippines. 2005. Written by Elizabeth King. Five policy briefs related to educational progress, quality of education, finance, equity, and management; distributed by World Bank Country Office. Unauthored, Quantitative Techniques for Health Equity Analysis: Technical Notes. Written by Adam Wagstaff, Eddy van Doorslaer, Owen O’Donnell and Magnus Lindelow*. Twenty technical notes outline, through worked examples with Stata code, the issues that arise in the quantitative analysis of health equity.
Working Papers in 2005 Ahmad, Junaid Kamal, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani, and Shekhar Shah. 2005. “Decentralization and Service Delivery.” Policy Research Working Paper 3603. World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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Journal Articles in 2004 Alderman, Harold H. and Luc Christiaensen. 2004. "Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income?” Economic Development and Cultural Change 52: 287-312. Das, Jishnu and Jeffrey S. Hammer. 2004. "Strained Mercy: Quality of Medical Care in Delhi.” Economic and Political Weekly 39: 951-61. Das Gupta, Monica, Helene Grandvoinnet, and Mattia Romani. 2004. "State-community synergies in community-driven development.” Journal Of Development Studies 40: 27-58. Gauri, Varun and Ayesha Y. Vawda. 2004."Vouchers for Basic Education in Developing Countries: An Accountability Perspective.” World Bank Research Observer 19: 259-80. Gauri, Varun. 2004. "Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Development Countries.” World Development 32: 465-77. Hammer, Jeffrey and Mark Gersovitz. 2004. "The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases.” The Economic Journal 114: 1-27. Khaleghian, Peyvand. 2004. "Decentralization and Public Services: The Case of Immunization.” Social Science & Medicine 59: 163-183. Knack, Steve. 2004. "Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?” International Studies Quarterly 48: 251-66. Knack, Steve. 2004. "Foreign Aid, Institutions and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 52 (2): 255-86. Reinikka, Ritva S. and Jakob Svensson. 2004. "Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 119: 679-705. Schady, Norbert. 2004. "Do Macroeconomic Crises Always Slow Human Capital Accumulation?” World Bank Economic Review 18: 131-54. Van De Walle, Dominique. 2004. "Breaking up the Collective Farm: Welfare Outcomes of Viet Nam’s Massive Land Privatization.” Economics Of Transition 12: 201-36. Van De Walle, Dominique. 2004. "Is the Emerging Non-Farm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?” Economics of Transition 12: 237-74.
Chapters in Books in 2004 Das Gupta, Monica, Sunhwa Lee, Patricia Uberoi, Danning Wang, Lihong Wang, and Xiaodan Zhang. 2004. “State Policies, Culture and Women’s Agency in China, the Republic of Korea and India 1950-2000: Lessons from contrasting experiences.” In Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, eds., Culture and Development. Stanford University Press. Devarajan, Shantayanan and Ritva Reinikka. 2004. “Making Services Work for Poor People.” In Gudrun Kochendoerfer-Lucius and Boris Pleskovic, eds., Service Provision for the Poor: Public and Private Sector Cooperation.Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Reinikka, Ritva S. and Jakob Svensson. 2004. “The power of Information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys.” In Transparency International, eds., Global Corruption Report 2004: Transparency International. London: Pluto Press. Reinikka, Ritva S. and Jakob Svensson. 2004. “Efficiency of Public Spending: New Microeconomic Tools to Assess Service Delivery.” In Tony Addison and Alan Roe, eds., Fiscal Policy for Development: Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth. Palgrave Macmillan. Van De Walle, Dominique. 2004. “The Static and Dynamic Incidence of Vietnam’s Public Safety Net.” In Paul Glewwe, Nisha Agrawal and David Dollar, eds., Economic Growth, Poverty and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons from Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Reinikka, Ritva S. and Nathanael Smith. 2004. Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys in Education. Paris: International Institute for Education Planning.
Working Papers in 2004 Alderman, Harold. 2004. “Improving Child Nutrition for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Africa.” Background Policy Brief prepared for conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020: Prioritizing Actions, Strengthening Actors, and Facilitating Partnerships, Kampala, Uganda, April 1–3, 2004.”
Other Working Papers in 2004 - Reinikka, Ritva S., and Jakob Svensson. 2004. “Working for God?” Research Discussion Paper Series 4214. Centre for Economic Policy, United Kingdom.
Ridao-Cano, Cristobal and Deon Filmer. 2004. “Indonesia: Evaluating the Performance of SGP and SIGP: A Review of the Existing Literature and Beyond.” Human Development Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region. Working Paper 2004-3. World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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Other Working Papers (Bank and Non-Bank) Journal Articles in 2003 Van De Walle, Dominique. 2003. “Are returns to investment lower for the poor? Human and physical capital interactions in rural Vietnam.” Review Of Development Economics 7: 636-53. Ersado, Lire, Harold H. Alderman, Jeffrey Alwang. 2003. “Changes in Consumption and Saving Behavior before and after Economic Shocks: Evidence from Zimbabwe.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 52: 187-216. Gong, Liutang and Heng-fu Zou. 2003.“Fiscal Federalism, Public Capital Formation, and Endogenous Growth.” Annals Of Economics and Finance 4: 471-90. Knack, Steve. 2003. “Groups, Growth, and Trust.” Public Choice 117: 341-55. Hammer, Jeffrey S., and Mark Gersovitz. 2003. “Infectious Diseases, Public Policy, and the Marriage of Economics and Epidemiology.” World Bank Research Observer 18: 129-57. Devarajan, Shantayanan and Ritva Reinikka. 2003. “Making Services Work for Poor People.” Finance and Development 40: 48-51. Zou, Heng-fu and Liutang Gong. 2003. “Military Spending and Stochastic Growth.” Journal Of Economic Dynamics & Control 28: 153-70. Knack, Steve, M. Kugler, and N. Manning. 2003. “Second Generation Governance Indicators.” International Review Of Administrative Sciences 69: 345-64. Das, Jishnu and Saumya Das, 2003. “Trust, learning, and vaccination: a case study of a North Indian village.” Social Science & Medicine 57: 97-112. Das Gupta, Monica, Jiang Zhenghua, Li Bohua, Xie Zhenming, Woojin Chung, and Bae Hwa-Ok. 2003. “Why is son preference so persistent in East and South Asia? A cross-country study of China, India, and the Republic of Korea.” Journal Of Development Studies 40: 153-87.
Alderman, Harold, Jooseop Kim, and Peter F. Orazem. 2003. “Design, evaluation, and sustainability of private schools for the poor: the Pakistan urban and rural fellowship school experiments.” Economics of Education Review 22 (3, June): 265-74. Alderman, Harold, Jesko Hentschel, and Ricardo Sabates. 2003. “With the help of one’s neighbors: externalities in the production of nutrition in Peru.” Social Science and Medicine 56 (10): 2019-31. Haddad, Lawrence, Harold Alderman, Simon Appleton, Lina Song, and Yisebac Yohannes. 2003. “Reducing Child Malnutrition: How Far Does Income Growth Take Us?” World Bank Economic Review 17(1): 107-31. Knack, Stephen and O. Azfar. 2003. “Trade Intensity, Country Size and Corruption” (with O. Azfar). Economics of Governance 4(1, February), 1-18. Alderman, Harold, Mariam Babita, Gabriel Demombynes, Nthabiseng Makhatha, and Berk Özler. 2003. “How Low Can You Go? Combining Census and Survey Data for Mapping Poverty in South Africa.” Journal of African Economies 11(2): 169-200, http://jae.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/2/169 Schady, Norbert. 2003. “Convexity and Sheepskin Effects in the Human Capital Earnings Function: Recent Evidence for Filipino Men.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 65 (2, May): 171-96. Svensson, Jakob. 2003. “Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross Section of Firms.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (1, February): 207-30.
Books in 2003 Ferranti, David de, Guillermo Perry, Indermit Gill, J. Luis Guasch, William Maloney, Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, Norbert Schady. 2003. Closing the Gap in Education and Technology. Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Online at http://www-wds.worldbank.org/ Reinikka, Ritva S., Shantayanan Devarajan, Junaid Ahmad, Stephen Commins, Deon Filmer, Jeffery Hammer, Lant Pritchett, Shekhar Shah, and Agnes Soucat. 2003. World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Knack, Stephen, editor. 2003. Democracy, Governance and Growth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Chapters in Books in 2003 Alderman, Harold H., John Hoddinott, Lawrence Haddad, and Christopher R. Udry. 2003.“Gender Differentials in Farm Productivity: Implications for Household Efficiency and Agricultural Policy.” In Agnes R. Quisumbing, eds., Household Decisions, Gender, and Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research.Johns Hopkins University Press. Filmer, Deon, Jeffrey Hammer, and Lant Pritchett. 2003. “Primary health care in poor countries: rethinking health policy.” In Le financement de la santé dans les pays d’Afrique et d’Asie à faible revenu. Karthala. Hammer, Jeffrey and William Jack. 2003.“The design of incentives for health care providers in developing countries: contracts, competition and cost-control.” In Le financement de la santé dans les pays d’Afrique et d’Asie à faible revenu. Editions Karthala. Knack, Stephen and Philip Keefer. 2003. “Social Polarization, Political Institutions and Country Creditworthiness.” In J. C. Heckelman and D. Coates, eds. Collective Choices: Essays in Honor of Mancur Olson. Berlin: Springer. Jin, Jing, and Heng-fu Zou. 2003. “Soft Budget Constraints and Local Government in China.” In Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvak, eds., Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Rodden, Jonathan, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvak. 2003. “Introduction and Overview.” In Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvak, eds., Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Rodden, Jonathan, and Gunnar S. Eskeland. 2003. “Lessons and Conclusions.” In Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvak, eds., Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
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Journal Articles in 2002 Hammer, Jeffrey S., and William Jack. 2002. “Designing incentives for rural health care providers in developing countries.” Journal of Development Economics 69(1, October): 297-303. Khaleghian, Peyvand, and Varun Gauri. 2002. “Immunization in Developing Countries: Its Political and Organizational Determinants?” World Development 30 (12, December): 2109-2132. Rawlings, Laura, and Norbert Schady and Laura Rawlings. 2002. “Impact Evaluation of Social Funds: An Introduction.” World Bank Economic Review 16 (2, December): 213–17. Knack, Stephen. 2002. “Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence From the States.” American Journal of Political Science 46(4, October): 772-85. - Schady, Norbert. 2002. “Picking the Poor: Indicators for Geographic Targeting in Peru.” The Review of Income and Wealth 3 (September): 417-33.
Gong, Liutang, and Heng-fu Zou. 2002. “Direct preferences for wealth, the risk premium puzzle, growth, and policy effectiveness.” Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 26: 247-70. Gong, Liutang, and Heng-fu Zou. 2002. “Effects of Growth and Volatility in Public Expenditures on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence.” Annals of Economics and Finance 3(November): 379-406. Gong, Liutang, and Heng-fu Zou. 2002. “Optimal Taxation and Intergovernmental Transfer in a Dynamic Model with Multiple Levels of Government.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 26(12, October): 1975-2003. Jin, Jing, and Heng-fu Zou. 2002. “How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size?” Journal of Urban Economics 52(2, September):270-93. Mackinnon, John, and Ritva Reinikka. 2002. “How Research Can Assist Policy: The Case of Economic Reforms in Uganda.” World Bank Research Observer 17 (2, Fall): 267-92. Reinikka, Ritva, and Jakob Svensson. 2002. “Coping with Poor Public Capital.” Journal of Development Economics 69(1, August): 51-69. Wagstaff, Adam. 2002. Pobreza y desigualdades en el sector de la salud. Rev Panam Salud Publica 11(5-6): 316-26. Wane, Waly. 2002. “Income Taxation and Tax Evasion in a Finite Economy.” Annals of Economics and Finance 3(2, November): 407-31. Knack, Stephen and P. Zak. 2002.“Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, and Economic Development.” Supreme Court Economic Review 10 (Fall): 21-107.
Books in 2002 Filmer Deon. 2002. “Inequalities in Education: International Experience.” Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Human Development Theme. Oxford, United Kingdom: UNESCO-EOLSS. Rodden, Jonathan, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvak. 2003. Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Chapters in Books in 2002 Devarajan, Shantayanan, and Jeffrey Hammer. 2002. “Public Expenditures and Risk Reduction.” In Shantayanan Devarajan and F. Halsey Rogers, eds. World Bank Economists’ Forum, volume 2. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Knack, Stephen. 2002. “Social Capital, Growth and Poverty: A Survey of Cross-Country Evidence.” In Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer, eds., The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reinikka, Ritva, and Jakob Svensson. 2002. “Measuring and Understanding Corruption at the Micro Level.” In Donatella Della Porta and Susan Rose-Ackerman, eds., Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and the Political Economy of Corruption. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002, pp. 134-46.
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