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WORKING PAPERS
December 09, 2014
We combine newly created data on per student government expenditure on children in government elementary schools across India, data on per student expenditure by households on students attending private elementary schools, and the ASER measure of learning achievement of students in rural areas. ...
CGD in the News
November 18, 2014
It’s not just individual projects that fall into the gap between inputs and results. Lant Pritchett’s The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning documents how the international push for improved school attendance—as opposed to improved literacy, professional skills, and...
CGD in the News
October 24, 2014
Well, their best bet is immigration, legal or otherwise. Not to belabor the obvious here, but where you live determines how much you can make. The same person with the same education and the same skills can make seven times more working in the United States than in Haiti, according to economists Mic...
CGD in the News
October 17, 2014
Imagine you’re a doctor and someone hands you the chart of a 60-year-old man, asking you to predict the patient’s health for the next decade. The guy is a probiotic-eating marathon runner and his cholesterol numbers look great. Still, your prediction will likely give more weight to the a...
CGD in the News
September 15, 2014
CGD'S effort to weigh malaria interventions stirred new controversy. Malaria control didn't make it into the first two editions of Millions Saved, in 2004 and 2007, which documented triumphs from global ones like smallpox eradication to little-known efforts to combat diarrheal disease in Egy...
Blog Post
September 11, 2014
The head of USAID claims that “political momentum” is building to make extreme poverty “central” to the development agenda. The question is: How does one build political momentum for a global development agenda that excludes 5 billion people and the middle class of (nea...
Blog Post
September 04, 2014
“Dollar a day” poverty morphed from a technical curiosity that interests at most a few dozen technocrats to the first of the Millennium Development Goals. It is now one of only two corporate goals of the World Bank (in spite of its obvious inconsistency with the World Bank’s own Ar...
Blog Post
August 27, 2014
Angus Deaton said he didn’t mind poverty analysis as long as the poverty line is infinity. Stevenson and Wolfers (2013) assemble the array of survey based measures of subjective well- being (SWB), such as “life satisfaction” or “happiness” and search for income sa...