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A Framework for the Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (英语)

Numerous digital health interventions have been piloted in response to the health care challenges low- and middle-income countries face. Because the opportunity cost of investing in digital health interventions...

The Distribution of Effort : Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting (英语)

Physical effort is a primary component in models of economic behavior. However, applications that measure effort are historically scarce. This paper assesses the differences in physical activity between...

Améliorer la Couverture Effective en Matière de Santé les Incitations Financières Fonctionnent-Elles? : Rapport De Recherche (法语)

Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work - Overview (英语)

Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

Cómo Mejorar la Cobertura Efectiva de la Salud : ¿Funcionan los Incentivos Financieros? - Panorama General (西班牙语)

Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

Improving Effective Coverage in Health : Do Financial Incentives Work? (英语)

Financial incentives or performance pay links payments to health facilities and workers to the quantity and quality of services they deliver. These performance incentives came on the scene in health financing...

A Puzzle with Missing Pieces : Explaining the Effectiveness of World Bank Development Projects (英语)

The identification of key determinants of aid effectiveness is a long-standing question in the development community. This paper reviews the literature on aid effectiveness at the project level and then...

Financial Incentives to Increase Utilization of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (英语)

Financial incentives for health providers and households are increasingly used to improve reproductive, maternal, and child health service coverage in low- and middle-income countries. This study provides...

How Many Infants May Have Died in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries in 2020 Due to the Economic Contraction Accompanying the COVID-19 Pandemic? Mortality Projections Based on Forecasted Declines in Economic Growth (英语)

While COVID-19 has a relatively small direct impact on infant mortality, the pandemic is expected to indirectly increase mortality of this vulnerable group in low-income and middle-income countries through...

The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies (英语)

In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown...

The Distribution of Effort : Physical Activity, Gender Roles, and Bargaining Power in an Agrarian Setting (英语)

The disutility of work, often summarily described as effort, is a primal component of economic models of worker and consumer behavior. However, empirical applications that measure effort, especially those...

How Two Tests Can Help Contain COVID-19 and Revive the Economy (英语)

Faced with COVID-19 (Coronavirus), countries are taking drastic action based on little information. Two tests can help governments shorten and soften economically costly suppression measures while still...

Incorporating Quality of Care Investments into a Health System Pay-for-Performance Framework : Process Evaluation of Zimbabwe’s Continuous Quality Improvement Innovation - Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Process Evaluation Report (英语)

This report provides findings and recommendations based on the process monitoring evaluation of the continuous quality improvement (CQI) intervention being implemented under the World Bank financed Health...

Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children (英语)

Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child nutritional status. This...

Productivity and health : alternative productivity estimates using physical activity (英语)

This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares worker...

Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy (英语)

Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the theoretical and empirical child labor literature, this paper shows that child work...

Impact Evaluation on Improving Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Demand in Malawi through the Use of Incentives (英语)

This report presents an impact evaluation assessing the effect of incentives on improving the uptake of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) in two districts in Malawi. The cluster randomised control...

Decomposing response errors in food consumption measurement : implications for survey design from a survey experiment in Tanzania (英语)

There is wide variation in how consumption is measured in household surveys both across countries and over time. This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey...

Impact evaluation of Zambia’s health results-based financing pilot project (英语)

In low and middle-income countries, there are various interventions that can be used to improvehealth system functionality and priority health outcomes. Results Based Financing (RBF) is oneapproach increasingly...

Linking results to performance : evidence from a results based financing pre-pilot project in Katete District, Zambia (英语)