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Autor:
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Development. 20:35-60
Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering both educational attainment in the formal education system and participation in non-formal education in the form of adult literacy
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https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.20.2.0035
https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrideve.20.2.0035
Autor:
Dean Spears, Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Health Economics
Highlights • Many people in developing countries defecate in the open without using a toilet. • We study a field experiment of the effects of sanitation on child height in India. • We find that the program caused children to grow taller, on ave
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Autor:
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS. 18:1-19
Whether to provide services by the public or the private sector has been at the center of debates within governments and those in the international aid industry for decades. Unfortunately, this debate has often been cast in terms of absolutes with th
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https://doi.org/10.35536/lje.2013.v18.isp.a1
https://doi.org/10.35536/lje.2013.v18.isp.a1
Autor:
Jishnu Das, Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 26:w338-w351
There are seventy medical care providers within walking distance of every household in Delhi. However, inequalities in health outcomes persist among the rich and poor, which might reflect...
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https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.w338
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.w338
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Perspectives. 20:91-116
In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in
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https://doi.org/10.1257/089533006776526058
https://doi.org/10.1257/089533006776526058
Autor:
Jeffrey S. Hammer, Karthik Muralidharan, Lorena Alcázar, F. Halsey Rogers, Nazmul Chaudhury, Michael Kremer
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Educational Research. 45:117-136
A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project,
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2006.11.007
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2006.11.007
Autor:
Jishnu Das, Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 78:348-383
We develop a method in which vignettes–a battery of questions for hypothetical cases–are evaluated with item response theory to measure the clinical competence of doctors. The method, which allows us to simultaneously estimate competence and vali
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.11.004
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.11.004
Autor:
Jeffrey S. Hammer, Mark Gersovitz
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 89:647-674
Vector-borne diseases especially rife in poor countries pose sectoral tax/subsidy issues. Preventions and therapies mitigate these diseases in a numerical optimization model combining dynamic epidemiology and economics. The medical distinction betwee
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.02.007
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.02.007
Publikováno v:
Journal of the European Economic Association. 3:658-667
Twenty-five percent of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in
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https://doi.org/10.1162/1542476054473143
https://doi.org/10.1162/1542476054473143
Autor:
Mark Gersovitz, Jeffrey S. Hammer
Publikováno v:
The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases
The structure of representative agents and decentralisation of the social planner's problem provide a framework for the economics of infection and associated externalities. Optimal implementation of prevention and therapy depends on: (1) biology incl
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https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0013-0133.2003.0174.x
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0013-0133.2003.0174.x