Econ.Worldbank.Org/Programs/Public Services

(Publications1 July 2004-June 2005)

econ.worldbank.org/programs/public_services

Aid effectiveness

Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005. (F. Halsey Rogers, Nicholas Stern,Jean-Jacques Dethier)

Education

“Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador: The roles of wealth, health, and parenting.” Policy Research Working Paper 3605, 2005. (Christina Paxson and Norbert Schady) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000.” Policy Research Working paper 3362, 2004 (Damien de Walque) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“Fighting Corruption to Improve Schooling: Evidence from a Newspaper Campaign in Uganda.” Journal Of European Economic Association 3: 259-67, 2005. (Jakob Svensson, Ritva S. Reinikka)

“Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data.” Policy Research Working Paper 3521, 2005. (Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Tristan Zajonc) “Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot.” Journal of the European Economic Association 3: 658-667, 2005. (F. Halsey Rogers, Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan)

“Teacher shocks and student learning: evidence from Zambia.” Policy Research Working Paper 3602, 2005. World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C. (Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan)

“Vouchers for Basic Education in Developing Countries: An Accountability Perspective.” World Bank Research Observer 19: 259-80, 2004. (Varun Gauri and Ayesha Y. Vawda)

Health, Nutrition, and Population

“Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia.” American Journal Of Agricultural Economics 87: 273-288, 2005. (Harold H. Alderman, Luc J. Christiaensen, Takashi Yamano)

“Health insurance impacts on health and non-medical consumaption in a developing country.” Policy Research Working Paper 3563, 2005. (Adam Wagstaff and Menno Pradhan) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

1 Most bank documents are filed in the institutional archives http://www-wds.worldbank.org/

1 “Improving child nutrition outcomes in India: can the Integrated Child Development Services program be more effective?” Policy Research Working Paper 3242, 2005. (Monica Das Gupta,Michael Lokshin,Michele Gragnolati,Oleksiy Ivaschenko) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“India’s Public Health System: How Well Does it Function at the National Level?” Policy Research Working paper 3447, 2004. (Monica Das Gupta and Manju Rani) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“PROGRESA for Progress: Mexico’s Health, Nutrition, and Education Program.” 2005. Development Outreach (May). (David P. Coady, Deon P. Filmer and Davidson R. Gwatckin) Online at http://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/

“Reducing child malnutrition in Tanzania: combined effects of income growth and program interventions.” Policy Research Working Paper 3567, 2005. (Harold H. Alderman, Hans Hoogeveen, Mariacristina Rossi) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“Selective Mortality During the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia.” Population And Development Review 31: 351-68, 2005. (Damien de Walque)

“The Long-Term Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia.” Policy Research Working Paper 3446, 2004. (Damien de Walque).

“The performance of health workers in Ethiopia: Results from qualitative research.” Policy Research Working Paper 3558, 2005. World Bank, Development Research Group, Washington, D.C. (Magnus Lindelow,Peter Serneels,Teigist Lemma)

Impact Evaluation

“Do donors get what they paid for? Micro evidence on the fungbilitiy of development project aid.” Policy Research Working Paper 3542, 2005. (Dominique van de Walle) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

Political Economy of Service Delivery

“Decentralization and service delivery.” Policy Research Working Paper 3603, 2005. (Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani, and Shekhar Shah) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“Decomposing changes in income inequality into vertical and horizontal redistribution, and reranking, with applications to China and Vietnam.” Policy Research Working Paper 3559, 2005. (Adam Wagstaff) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

“Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor.” World Bank Research Observer 20: 1-27, 2005. (Stuti Khemani)

“Do Macroeconomic Crises Always Slow Human Capital Accumulation?” World Bank Economic Review 18: 131-54, 2004. (Norbert Schady)

“Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizaing Reform.” Policy Research Working Paper 3557, 2005. (Jac Heckelman and Steve Knack) Online at econ.worldbank.org.

Provider Surveys

2 Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys in Education. Paris: International Institute for Education Planning, 2004. (Ritva S. Reinikka,Nathanael Smith)

“Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot.” Journal of the European Economic Association 3: 658-667, 2005. (F. Halsey Rogers, Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey S. Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan)

Researchers

 Harold Alderman  Jishnu Das  Monica Das Gupta  Damien de Walque  Deon Filmer  Varun Gauri  Jeffrey Hammer  Stuti Khemani  Stephen Knack  Mead Over  Halsey Rogers  Norbert Schady  Jakob Svensson  Dominique van de Walle  Adam Wagstaff  Waly Wane  Heng-Fu Zou

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