Author:Montgomery, AlexDate:2012This paper examines the effects of the South African National School Nutrition Programme on nutritional outcomes using a regression discontinuity design applied to the first wave of the National Income Dynamic Study. There is tentative evidence ...Read more
Author:Delavallade, Clara; Dizon, Felipe; Hill, Ruth; Petraud, Jean PaulDate:28 May 2015Although there is fast-growing policy interest in offering financial products to help rural households manage risk, the literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. This paper uses a randomized field experiment in ...Read more
Author:Delavallade, ClaraDate:28 May 2015Après avoir dressé une typologie de la corruption, cet article en analyse les implications pour les dépenses publiques et la croissance. Il montre également comment l’environnement économique, institutionnel et politique des pays à faible ...Read more
Author:Delavallade, ClaraDate:28 May 2015Health care in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, reducing incentives to use quality health services. Using data from a field experiment in India, I show that providing initial quality care improves the demand for ...Read more
Author:Delavallade, ClaraDate:28 May 2015This paper empirically analyzes the main microeconomic determinants of two
forms of corruption supply, administrative corruption and state capture, by
Maghrebi firms. This study is based on a new database of nearly 600 Algerian,
Moroccan and ...Read more
Author:Delavallade, ClaraDate:28 May 2015Despite official discourses of donors, the most corrupt countries receive the highest amounts of foreign aid. The most corrupt countries are however also the poorest, and this is why they may receive more aid. This paper provides the first ...Read more