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  • 1
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    Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel (2015)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9958246528202883
    Format: 1 online resource (29 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Although 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 Senegal and Burkina Faso to compare male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in savings for emergencies, even controlling for access to informal insurance and differences in crop choice. It is hypothesized that this finding results from the fact that, although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face additional sources of lifecycle risk-particularly health risks associated with fertility and childcare-that men do not. In essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Purchasing insurance increased input spending and use more than savings. Those who purchased more insurance realized higher average yields and were better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This finding suggests that gender differences in demand for financial products can have an impact on productivity, resilience, and welfare.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7176
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    FU Berlin
    UB Potsdam
    EUV Frankfurt
    HTW Berlin
    Charité
    MPI Bildungsforschung
  • 2
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    Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture : Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria (2021)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9960054842802883
    Format: 1 online resource (35 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Occupational sex segregation is a key driver of the gender gap in earnings. Using data from 11,691 aspiring agribusiness entrepreneurs across five states in Nigeria, this paper explores the gender gap in the sectoral choice decision, and especially the role played by norms around gender roles. When given a choice of 11 agricultural value chains in a government program, the majority (54 percent) of the entrepreneurs chose to enter into poultry, a value chain with relatively lower profit potential, and women were more likely to choose poultry than men. This paper finds evidence of more restrictive gender norms in Northern States, which lowers women's likelihood of crossing over to potentially more lucrative value chains. The gender gap in sectoral choice is also attributed to differences in work experience especially in agricultural activities and in the chosen value chain, as well as in land ownership and differential access to tertiary-level education. The paper shows that women with more experience in male-dominated value chains exhibit lower self-efficacy, which could reflect the challenges they face when deviating from social norms to operate within these sectors.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9695
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    FU Berlin
    UB Potsdam
    EUV Frankfurt
    HTW Berlin
    Charité
    MPI Bildungsforschung
  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Motivating Teams : Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work (2021)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9959833874702883
    Format: 1 online resource (47 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Aside from money, what works best to incentivize teams? Using a randomized field experiment, this paper tests whether fixed-wage workers respond better to receiving private feedback on performance or to competing for public recognition. Female school feeding teams in 450 South African schools were randomly assigned to receiving (i) private feedback: information on performance and ranking using scorecards, (ii) public recognition: public ceremony award for top performers, (iii) both feedback and award, or (iv) no intervention. The analysis yields two main findings. First, while private feedback and public award are more effective when offered separately, receiving feedback on performance boosts teams' effort more than public recognition. Second, image motivation crowds out intrinsic motivation, especially for low-ability teams. This suggests that providing performance feedback can be an effective policy for leveraging intrinsic motivation and improving service delivery, more so than mechanisms leveraging image motivation.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9621
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    FU Berlin
    UB Potsdam
    EUV Frankfurt
    HTW Berlin
    Charité
    MPI Bildungsforschung
  • 4
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    Online Resource
    Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management : Evidence from India (2019)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9959272491502883
    Format: 1 online resource (46 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard deviation due to the program in the first year and 0.156 standard deviation at the end of the second year, which did not vary by gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the number of improvement plans completed by 25 percent.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9081
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    FU Berlin
    EUV Frankfurt
    HTW Berlin
    Charité
  • 5
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    Locking Crops to Unlock Investment : Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso (2020)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    almafu_9959394816002883
    Format: 1 online resource (44 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Financial market imperfections remain pervasive in developing countries, constraining potentially profitable investment decisions, especially for rural smallholder farmers. Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit, storage, and commitment constraints through a localized inventory credit scheme. Exploiting random variations in household access to warrantage and intensity of access across villages, this paper studies the direct impact of this scheme on beneficiaries as well as its spillover effects. Take-up of storage is high (94 percent), while credit take-up is moderate (38 percent). Households with access to warrantage primarily store sorghum and maize and sell their production over an extended period of time, earning higher average prices and resulting in higher sales revenue (
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9248
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    FU Berlin
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    Charité
  • 6
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    Effects of a multi-faceted education program on enrollment, equity, learning, and school management : evidence from India (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Africa Region, Gender Innovation Lab
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    UID:
    gbv_1691181730
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 46 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9081
    Content: The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard deviation due to the program in the first year and 0.156 standard deviation at the end of the second year, which did not vary by gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the number of improvement plans completed by 25 percent
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clara Delavallade Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management: Evidence from India Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9081
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  • 7
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    Locking crops to unlock investment : experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso (2020)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Africa Region, Gender Innovation Lab
    Details
    UID:
    gbv_1723422312
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 44 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9248
    Content: Financial market imperfections remain pervasive in developing countries, constraining potentially profitable investment decisions, especially for rural smallholder farmers. Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit, storage, and commitment constraints through a localized inventory credit scheme. Exploiting random variations in household access to warrantage and intensity of access across villages, this paper studies the direct impact of this scheme on beneficiaries as well as its spillover effects. Take-up of storage is high (94 percent), while credit take-up is moderate (38 percent). Households with access to warrantage primarily store sorghum and maize and sell their production over an extended period of time, earning higher average prices and resulting in higher sales revenue (
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Delavallade, Clara Locking Crops to Unlock Investment: Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9248
    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: Deutschlandweit zugänglich
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    UB Potsdam
    MPI Bildungsforschung
  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management : Evidence from India (2019)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9959272491502883
    Format: 1 online resource (46 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard deviation due to the program in the first year and 0.156 standard deviation at the end of the second year, which did not vary by gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the number of improvement plans completed by 25 percent.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9081
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
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    Open Access Request
    FU Berlin
  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Effects of a Multi-Faceted Education Program on Enrollment, Equity, Learning, and School Management : Evidence from India (2019)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edoccha_9959272491502883
    Format: 1 online resource (46 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Sustainable Development Goals set a triple educational objective: improve access to, quality of, and gender equity in education. This paper documents the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational program, pursuing these three objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on students' school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11.7 percent in the second), reducing gender gaps in school retention. The findings show large learning gains of 0.323 standard deviation due to the program in the first year and 0.156 standard deviation at the end of the second year, which did not vary by gender. There were also large effects on school management outcomes, increasing the number of meetings by 16 percent and the number of improvement plans completed by 25 percent.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9081
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
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    Charité
  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings : Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel (2015)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9958246528202883
    Format: 1 online resource (29 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Although 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 Senegal and Burkina Faso to compare male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural insurance and more likely to invest in savings for emergencies, even controlling for access to informal insurance and differences in crop choice. It is hypothesized that this finding results from the fact that, although men and women are equally exposed to yield risk, women face additional sources of lifecycle risk-particularly health risks associated with fertility and childcare-that men do not. In essence, the basis risk associated with agricultural insurance products is higher for women. Purchasing insurance increased input spending and use more than savings. Those who purchased more insurance realized higher average yields and were better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This finding suggests that gender differences in demand for financial products can have an impact on productivity, resilience, and welfare.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7176
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
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    FU Berlin
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