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Attracting the Right Teachers in Rwanda and Four Other New Findings in Global Education

David Evans

July 02, 2019

Paying teachers for performance may have very different effects on the effort that current teachers put in and on the kinds of people that choose to become teachers. In a novel experiment by Leaver and others in Rwanda, advertisements in some randomly selected communities offered candidates pay-for-...

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The Medium-Run and Scale-Up Effects of Performance-Based Financing: An Extension of Rwanda’s 2006 Trial Using Secondary Data - Working Paper 497

Diana Ngo

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Sebastian Bauhoff

November 15, 2018

Rwanda’s performance-based incentives were effective for some indicators, but unconditional financing also induced improvements. The incentive effects persisted in the medium-run and as the program was scaled-up.

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Using Supervised Learning to Select Audit Targets in Performance-Based Financing in Health: An Example from Zambia - Working Paper 481

Dhruv Grover et al.

April 11, 2018

We examine alternative strategies for targeted sampling of health clinics for independent verification. Our results indicate that machine learning methods, particularly Random Forest, outperform other approaches and can increase the cost-effectiveness of verification activities.

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Guyana’s Forest Preservation Agreement: Hopes, Fears, and Consequences

William Savedoff

February 21, 2018