Browsing by Author "Filmer, Deon"

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    • Development, Modernization, And Son Preference In Fertility Decisions 

      Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert (The World Bank, 2008-09)
      A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son ...

    • Making Schools Work : New Evidence on Accountability Reforms 

      Bruns, Barbara; Filmer, Deon; Patrinos, Harry Anthony (World Bank, 2011)
      El libro realiza una revisión de las experiencias de reforma educativa orientadas a la rendición de cuentas en los países en vía de desarrollo. Para ello, examina evaluaciones de impacto realizadas en varias de dichas ...

    • What do teachers know and do? Does it matter? : evidence from primary schools in Africa 

      Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Martin, Gayle; Molina, Ezequiel; Rockmore, Christophe; Stacy, Brian; Svensson, Jakob; Wane, Waly (World Bank, 2017-01)
      School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, ...

    • What Educational Production Functions Really Show : A Positive Theory of Education Spending 

      Filmer, Deon; Pritchett, Lann (The World Bank, 1997-08-20)
      The existing empirical work on educational production functions provides powerful insights into a positive theory of the allocation of educational expenditures. An optimizing model of expenditure allocations predicts that ...