Pub Date : 2022-02-11DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2029540
Harsha Aturupane, P. Glewwe, Tomoko Utsumi, S. Wisniewski, Mari Shojo
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of a school-based management policy in Sri Lanka, the Programme for School Improvement (PSI). The PSI established new management structures and provided training and support services to: (a) devolve decisions for a range of activities to the school level; (b) increase participation of parents and the local community; and (c) focus schools’ efforts on student learning. A randomized controlled trial show some evidence of behaviour changes in both principals and teachers in PSI schools, but most observed behaviours did not change. There are no statistically significant effects on student learning as measured by test scores.
{"title":"The impact of Sri lanka’s school-based management programme on teachers’ pedagogical practices and student learning: evidence from a randomised controlled trial","authors":"Harsha Aturupane, P. Glewwe, Tomoko Utsumi, S. Wisniewski, Mari Shojo","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2029540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2029540","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of a school-based management policy in Sri Lanka, the Programme for School Improvement (PSI). The PSI established new management structures and provided training and support services to: (a) devolve decisions for a range of activities to the school level; (b) increase participation of parents and the local community; and (c) focus schools’ efforts on student learning. A randomized controlled trial show some evidence of behaviour changes in both principals and teachers in PSI schools, but most observed behaviours did not change. There are no statistically significant effects on student learning as measured by test scores.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"40 1","pages":"285 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90116595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-09DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2026998
L. M. Salas
ABSTRACT I designed and implemented a Randomized Controlled Trial to study the effects of publicly and privately labelling village savings and loan associations’ savings accounts on savings behaviour for low-income individuals in Colombia. I find that publicly labelling savings accounts increased savings by 18 and 25 percent inside and outside the commitment product, respectively, relative to the control group. They were also 43 percent more likely to reach their savings goal. In contrast, privately labelling savings accounts is not effective at increasing savings for an average saver, suggesting that labelling is only effective when savings purposes are observed by peers.
{"title":"Savings and self-control: the effect of labelling","authors":"L. M. Salas","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2026998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2026998","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT I designed and implemented a Randomized Controlled Trial to study the effects of publicly and privately labelling village savings and loan associations’ savings accounts on savings behaviour for low-income individuals in Colombia. I find that publicly labelling savings accounts increased savings by 18 and 25 percent inside and outside the commitment product, respectively, relative to the control group. They were also 43 percent more likely to reach their savings goal. In contrast, privately labelling savings accounts is not effective at increasing savings for an average saver, suggesting that labelling is only effective when savings purposes are observed by peers.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"221 1","pages":"209 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90574930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2021.2024589
Shahana Hirji, Bethany Park, E. Tsinigo, Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick, Adrienne M. Lucas
ABSTRACT Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides partners with information for allocating limited budget resources. Challenges in conducting CEAs include collecting data across multiple sources, introducing cost ssumptions, and delivering the results to partners. This paper introduces strategies to address these challenges using the example of the Strengthening Accountability to Reach All Students (STARS) project, a government-implemented differentiated instruction project in Ghana. To implement the programme for one school year, including opportunity costs related to training, the differentiated instruction plus basic management arm cost $48 per child, while the differentiated instruction plus basic and enhanced management training arm cost $84 per child.
{"title":"Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana","authors":"Shahana Hirji, Bethany Park, E. Tsinigo, Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick, Adrienne M. Lucas","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2021.2024589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2021.2024589","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides partners with information for allocating limited budget resources. Challenges in conducting CEAs include collecting data across multiple sources, introducing cost ssumptions, and delivering the results to partners. This paper introduces strategies to address these challenges using the example of the Strengthening Accountability to Reach All Students (STARS) project, a government-implemented differentiated instruction project in Ghana. To implement the programme for one school year, including opportunity costs related to training, the differentiated instruction plus basic management arm cost $48 per child, while the differentiated instruction plus basic and enhanced management training arm cost $84 per child.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"26 5","pages":"31 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72461970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2029539
H. Majid, Syeda Warda Riaz
ABSTRACT This article uses propensity score matching techniques to estimate unconditional cash transfer effects on women’s labour outcomes in Pakistan. Using two rounds of nationally representative data, we find positive effects for women in recipient households . However, we observe a dip in overall women’s employment from the first to the second round. This is likely driven by a downturn in the agriculture sector’s performance. Moreover, women in beneficiary households are better able to recover suggesting higher resilience to macroeconomic shocks. Yet, not all our results are positive as women remain vulnerable in their lack of access to non-agriculture earned income.
{"title":"Unconditional cash transfers and women’s labor supply in Pakistan","authors":"H. Majid, Syeda Warda Riaz","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2029539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2029539","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article uses propensity score matching techniques to estimate unconditional cash transfer effects on women’s labour outcomes in Pakistan. Using two rounds of nationally representative data, we find positive effects for women in recipient households . However, we observe a dip in overall women’s employment from the first to the second round. This is likely driven by a downturn in the agriculture sector’s performance. Moreover, women in beneficiary households are better able to recover suggesting higher resilience to macroeconomic shocks. Yet, not all our results are positive as women remain vulnerable in their lack of access to non-agriculture earned income.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"15 1","pages":"246 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73952315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-11DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2026999
Araceli Ortega–Díaz, M. Székely, I. Acevedo
ABSTRACT There is evidence that the conditional cash transfer programmeme PROGRESA/ /OPORTUNIDADES/PROSPERA, implemented in Mexico increased school enrolment, nutrition, and health outcomes among its participants, but little is known about its effects on school performance. This paper assesses this less commonly explored aspect through an innovative data base that engages the results from the national standardised academic performance test ENLACE, with the programmeme´s administrative records. Under different estimation techniques, we find a positive association between beneficiary´s time of exposure and their continuation in the schooling system until the end of Upper Secondary Education. There are some positive associations in learning outcomes.
{"title":"Improvements in schooling attainment through conditional cash transfers in Mexico","authors":"Araceli Ortega–Díaz, M. Székely, I. Acevedo","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2026999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2026999","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is evidence that the conditional cash transfer programmeme PROGRESA/ /OPORTUNIDADES/PROSPERA, implemented in Mexico increased school enrolment, nutrition, and health outcomes among its participants, but little is known about its effects on school performance. This paper assesses this less commonly explored aspect through an innovative data base that engages the results from the national standardised academic performance test ENLACE, with the programmeme´s administrative records. Under different estimation techniques, we find a positive association between beneficiary´s time of exposure and their continuation in the schooling system until the end of Upper Secondary Education. There are some positive associations in learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"25 1","pages":"228 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78109872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2042359
Pierre Jacquet, Emmanuel Jiménez, D. Revoltella
ABSTRACT This introduction summarily describes an innovative programme jointly organised by the European Investment Bank and the Global Development Network that competitively recruited and trained young researchers from Africa and the Caribbean to research on the economic and social impact of private sector investments funded by the European Investment as part of their Impact Investing Envelope. The introduction also summarises the research articles that were produced as part of the programme and selected for publication in this special issue.
{"title":"The economic and social impact of private investments: results of a programme to generate useful results while building research capacity","authors":"Pierre Jacquet, Emmanuel Jiménez, D. Revoltella","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2042359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2042359","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introduction summarily describes an innovative programme jointly organised by the European Investment Bank and the Global Development Network that competitively recruited and trained young researchers from Africa and the Caribbean to research on the economic and social impact of private sector investments funded by the European Investment as part of their Impact Investing Envelope. The introduction also summarises the research articles that were produced as part of the programme and selected for publication in this special issue.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"53 29 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83004940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2022.2042358
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Timothy M. Kinoti
ABSTRACT In this paper, We study how an on the job training program targeting low-income jewellery artisans (SOKO) impact on their vulnerability to poverty in Kenya. We use propensity score matching to assess SOKO’s impact on the poverty likelihood of artisans. We find that SOKO artisans have a lower vulnerability to poverty as compared to artisans with similar socio-demographic characteristics but no SOKO affiliation. We also find that female artisans affiliated with SOKO are more vulnerable to poverty as compared to male artisans. Our findings are robust to various propensity score matching specifications and to alternative measures of vulnerability to poverty.
{"title":"‘Craft for social good’: do on the job training of artisans’ impact on their vulnerability to poverty? Evidence from Kibera","authors":"Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Timothy M. Kinoti","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2022.2042358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2022.2042358","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, We study how an on the job training program targeting low-income jewellery artisans (SOKO) impact on their vulnerability to poverty in Kenya. We use propensity score matching to assess SOKO’s impact on the poverty likelihood of artisans. We find that SOKO artisans have a lower vulnerability to poverty as compared to artisans with similar socio-demographic characteristics but no SOKO affiliation. We also find that female artisans affiliated with SOKO are more vulnerable to poverty as compared to male artisans. Our findings are robust to various propensity score matching specifications and to alternative measures of vulnerability to poverty.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"10 1","pages":"76 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74098739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-26DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2021.2007980
Sophie Ochmann, K. Owolabi, Folake Olatunji-David, Niyi Okunlola, Sandra Jeanne Vollmer
ABSTRACT Grant disbursals and school-based management interventions have received growing attention from policy-makers despite their mixed success at improving educational outcomes. This paper reports results from a large-scale, cluster randomised controlled trial in Sokoto state, Nigeria. School-based management committees received a training and a grant to improve access to and quality of primary school education, especially for girls. One year after implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools’ infrastructure, educational attainment or learning outcomes . Therefore, understanding the context-specific constraints to primary school education is important to avoid spending 100 million USD on a programmewith no discernible impact.
{"title":"The impact of grants in combination with school-based management trainings on primary education: a cluster-randomized trial in Northern Nigeria","authors":"Sophie Ochmann, K. Owolabi, Folake Olatunji-David, Niyi Okunlola, Sandra Jeanne Vollmer","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2021.2007980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2021.2007980","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Grant disbursals and school-based management interventions have received growing attention from policy-makers despite their mixed success at improving educational outcomes. This paper reports results from a large-scale, cluster randomised controlled trial in Sokoto state, Nigeria. School-based management committees received a training and a grant to improve access to and quality of primary school education, especially for girls. One year after implementation, the intervention had no impact on schools’ infrastructure, educational attainment or learning outcomes . Therefore, understanding the context-specific constraints to primary school education is important to avoid spending 100 million USD on a programmewith no discernible impact.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"27 1","pages":"189 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75566472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2021.1999303
S. Dietrich, Georg Schmerzeck
ABSTRACT Cash transfers' positive impacts on food expenditures are well documented. However, beneficiaries' increased market-reliance might render their real consumption more vulnerable to price shocks, which hit developing countries regularly. We contribute to the sparse evidence base on this issue by analysing the effects of a cash transfer programme on food demand during a drastic price shock in Kenya. We find that the shock decreases beneficiaries' real food consumption more than that of non-beneficiaries. The magnitude of this effect varies considerably depending on how particular food baskets are affected by the shock.
{"title":"For real? Cash transfers’ effects on food consumption during price shocks in Kenya","authors":"S. Dietrich, Georg Schmerzeck","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2021.1999303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2021.1999303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cash transfers' positive impacts on food expenditures are well documented. However, beneficiaries' increased market-reliance might render their real consumption more vulnerable to price shocks, which hit developing countries regularly. We contribute to the sparse evidence base on this issue by analysing the effects of a cash transfer programme on food demand during a drastic price shock in Kenya. We find that the shock decreases beneficiaries' real food consumption more than that of non-beneficiaries. The magnitude of this effect varies considerably depending on how particular food baskets are affected by the shock.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"119 1","pages":"160 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77458677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-03DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2021.1986114
Kien Le, My Nguyen
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the less discernible cost of rainfall shocks to birth weight outcomes in the context of Vietnam. Exploiting the variation across districts and conception months-years, we show that in-utero exposure to excessive and deficient rainfall shocks in the second trimester reduces child’s weight at birth by 3.5% (97 grams) and 3.1% (87 grams), respectively. Besides, infants born to poor, rural, and low-educated mothers are especially vulnerable. Since poor infant health can leave persistent effects over the life cycle, the study calls for more efforts in intervention measures to mitigate the impacts of rainfall shocks.
{"title":"The impacts of rainfall shocks on birth weight in Vietnam","authors":"Kien Le, My Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/19439342.2021.1986114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2021.1986114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the less discernible cost of rainfall shocks to birth weight outcomes in the context of Vietnam. Exploiting the variation across districts and conception months-years, we show that in-utero exposure to excessive and deficient rainfall shocks in the second trimester reduces child’s weight at birth by 3.5% (97 grams) and 3.1% (87 grams), respectively. Besides, infants born to poor, rural, and low-educated mothers are especially vulnerable. Since poor infant health can leave persistent effects over the life cycle, the study calls for more efforts in intervention measures to mitigate the impacts of rainfall shocks.","PeriodicalId":46384,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Effectiveness","volume":"16 1","pages":"143 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87808021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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