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March 15, 2023
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WORKING PAPERS
March 21, 2023
We investigate the properties of measures of learning outcomes, as these are the tools commonly used to monitor the progress toward identifying the most effective interventions. We review test properties across 158 studies and conduct item-level psychometric analysis of a subset of these studies to ...
CGD NOTES
March 20, 2023
With global challenges high on the international agenda and financing set to increase in the coming years, a big push on evidence, backed by dedicated resources, is essential. This note makes the case for a reinvigorated evidence agenda to boost the impact of financing for development and global pub...
WORKING PAPERS
March 17, 2023
We study judicial in-group bias in Indian criminal courts using a newly collected dataset on over 5 million criminal case records from 2010–2018. We do find limited in-group bias in some settings where identity is salient—in particular, we find a small religious in-group bias during Ramadan, and we ...
CGD NOTES
March 16, 2023
The the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, bank regulators and supervisors in emerging markets should be looking closely at their own banking systems with lessons from Silicon Valley in mind. For most emerging markets, where previous banking crises were devastating and turned back the clock o...
CGD NOTES
March 16, 2023
As gender gaps in school enrollment and attainment continue to narrow around the world, global priorities have shifted toward focusing on the quality of education and the implications that a high-quality education has for broader societal outcomes including fostering gender equity. There is ample ev...
POLICY PAPERS
March 16, 2023
The current World Bank model focuses on reducing poverty and promoting equitable growth, while considering environmental and social sustainability. Programming is country-driven and resources allocated according to client government priorities, leaving global public goods (GPGs), particularly climat...
WORKING PAPERS
March 15, 2023
This paper examines the effectiveness of income protection and job protection policies for the post-pandemic economic recovery of the second half of 2020 through 2021. The empirical analysis shows that, in the short run, higher expenditure on job protection measures is associated with more robust GD...