What determines basic school attainment in developing countries? Evidence from rural China (2009)
This paper analyzes recent household survey data from Gansu, a less developed province in Northwest China, to examine school attainment in a poor rural area of China. Censored ordered probit...
Household Sample Surveys in Developing and Transition Countries Chapter XVII Using (2008)
multi-topic household surveys to improve poverty reduction policies in developing countries
Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale, Paul Glewwe
IFPRI Division Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI's Publications Review Committee, but...
Glewwe, Paul, Dang, Hai-Anh Hoang
Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the...
Economic Mobility in Vietnam in the 1990s (2007)
We would like to thank Gary Fields and Andrew Foster for useful discussion and comments. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They...
Paul Glewwe, Stefanie Koch, Bui Linh Nguyen
The findings, interpretations, and conclusion expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank or the Government of Vietnam. I.
Paul Glewwe, Hanan Jacoby, Elizabeth King
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Adam Wagstaff, Bob Baulch, Paul Glewwe, Richard Meyers
Pierella Paci, and to participants at seminars at Johns Hopkins, the World Bank in Hanoi, and the World Bank in Washington for helpful discussions on the issues covered in this paper. The findings,...
Glewwe, Paul, King, Elizabeth M.
This article uses longitudinal data from the Philippines to examine whether the timing of malnutrition in early childhood is a critical factor in determining subsequent cognitive development....
Markets, Human Capital, and Inequality: Evidence from Rural China (2000)
Benjamin, Dwayne, Brandt, Loren, Glewwe, Paul, Guo, Li
Market reforms are generally credited with the rapid growth enjoyed by China's rural sector. This growth has not been without some cost, however, as inequality has also increased. Estimates suggest...
Margaret E. Grosh, Paul Glewwe
The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of th e authors and should not be att ributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliated...
Glewwe, Paul, Grosh, Margaret, Jacoby, Hanan, Lockheed, Marlaine
This article estimates the determinants of cognitive skills in Jamaican primary education. We take an eclectic approach, integrating the production function framework favored by economists with the...
In most of the developing world the education of women lags behind that of men. This could come about from a lack of parental desire for educated daughters or from a perception by the parents that...
Growth and Equity in Developing Countries: A Reinterpretation of the Sri Lankan Experience (1986)
Bhalla, Surjit S., Glewwe, Paul
In the important debate between the proponents of direct (basic needs) and indirect (economic growth) measures of promoting welfare, Sri Lanka has frequently been cited as one country which has...
Nagarajan, Latha, Smale, Melinda, Glewwe, Paul
"The purpose of the research paper is to characterize biological diversity related to millets in the semi-arid regions of India at various spatial scales of analysis (e.g., farm household versus...
Retrospective vs. prospective analyses of school inputs: the case of flip charts in Kenya
Glewwe, Paul, Kremer, Michael, Moulin, Sylvie, Zitzewitz, Eric
Early childhood nutrition and academic achievement
Glewwe, Paul, Jocoby, Hanan, King, Elizabeth M.
Early childhood nutrition is thought to be an important input into subsequent academic achievement. This paper investigates the nutrition-learning nexus using a unique longitudinal data set, which...
Markets, Human Capital, and Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Paul Glewwe, Li Guo
Market reforms are generally credited with the rapid growth enjoyed by China's rural sector. This growth has not been without some cost, however, as inequality has also increased. Estimates suggest...
Markets, Human Capital, and Inequality: Evidence from Rural China
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Paul Glewwe, Li Guo
Market reforms are generally credited with the rapid growth enjoyed by China's rural sector. This growth has not been without some cost, however, as inequality has also increased. Estimates suggest...
Economic mobility in Vietnam in the 1990s
Vietnam's high economic growth in the 1990s led to sharp reductions in poverty, yet over the same time period inequality increased. This increased inequality may be less worrisome if Vietnamese...
Improving data on poverty in the Third World : the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study
This paper is an account of the World Bank's effort to collect household-level data on poverty in developing countries and what that data says about the effects of government policies on living...
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin
A randomized evaluation suggests that a program which provided official textbooks to randomly selected rural Kenyan primary schools did not increase test scores for the average student. In contrast,...
Schools and Skills in Developing Countries: Education Policies and Socioeconomic Outcomes
This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of educational outcomes, and the impact of those outcomes on other socioeconomic phenomena. It addresses three questions: 1) What school...
Targeting assistance to the poor using household survey data
It is important that limited government resources be channeled to the poor, but it is not always easy to identify the poor. Which households should be given tranfers when reliable information on...
Who gained from Vietnam's boom in the 1990s? An analysis of poverty and inequality trends
Glewwe, Paul, Gragnolatti, Michele, Zaman, Hassan
The authors assess the extent to which Vietnam's rapid economic growth in the 1990s was accompanied by reductions in poverty. They also investigate factors that contribute to certain households...
Child nutrition, economic growth, and the provision of health care services in Vietnam in the 1990s
Glewwe, Paul, Koch, Stefanie, Bui Linh Nguyen
Vietnam's rapid economic growth in the 1990s greatly increased the incomes of Vietnamese households, which led to a dramatic decline in poverty. Over the same period, child malnutrition rates in...
The Impact of Income Growth and Provision of Health-Care Services on Child Nutrition in Vietnam
Vietnam enjoyed rapid economic growth and a sharp reduction in child stunting in the 1990s. Economic growth can increase children's nutritional status in two ways. First, by raising household...
Latha Nagarajan, Melinda Smale, Paul Glewwe
This research characterizes the biological diversity of millet crops in the semiarid regions of India at the household and village-community ( "panchayat") scales of analysis, placing that evidence...
The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes
Orazem, Peter, Glewwe, Paul, Patrinos, Harry
This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returns to those investments in developing countries. It shows that 23% of children in developing...
Data Watch: The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys.
Grosh, Margaret E, Glewwe, Paul
Since 1985, the World Bank has been collecting household survey data in developing countries that provide a rich source of information for assessing household welfare, understanding household...
UNEMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: ECONOMIST'S MODELS IN LIGHT OF EVIDENCE FROM SRI LANKA
Observation of open unemployment in developing countries has lead some economist to formulate models which seek to explain this phenomenon. This paper examines unemployment in Sri Lanka in detail to...
This paper investigates why children in low income countries often delay primary school enrollment, despite the prediction of human capital theory that schooling will begin at the earliest possible...
The Willingness to Pay for Education for Daughters in Contrast to Sons: Evidence from Rural Peru.
In most of the developing world the education of women lags behind that of men. This could come about from a lack of parental desire for educated daughters or from a perception by the parents that...
Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries
Glewwe, Paul, Kremer, Michael, Erik Hanushek, F. Welch
About 80% of the world's children live in developing countries. Their well-being as adults depends heavily on the education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in...
The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries
Glewwe, Paul, Miguel, Edward A., T. Paul Schultz, John A. Strauss
Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most less developed countries also complete far fewer years of schooling, and learn...
In any population, income growth among the poor may be higher or lower than overall income growth. Estimates of income growth among the poor are almost always based on household surveys, but income...
Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin, Eric Zitzewitz
This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts...
Paul Glewwe, Nauman Ilias, Michael Kremer
Advocates of teacher incentive programs argue that they can strengthen weak incentives, while opponents argue they lead to teaching to the test.' We find evidence that existing teacher incentives in...
Poverty, Inequality, and Living Standards during Unorthodox Adjustment: The Case of Peru, 1985-1990.
This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of educational outcomes, and the impact of those outcomes on other socioeconomic phenomena. More specifically, it addresses three questions: 1....
Chapter titles: Introduction; Higher education in Minnesota; Private benefits from a university education; Public benefits of university education-conceptual and practical issues; Distribution of...
Glewwe, Paul, Park, Albert, Zhao, Meng
About 10% of primary school students in developing countries have poor vision, yet in virtually all of these countries very few children wear glasses. There has been almost no research on the impact...
ARE FOREIGN-OWNED BUSINESSES IN VIETNAM REALLY SWEATSHOPS?
International Relations/Trade,
Nagarajan, Latha, Smale, Melinda, Glewwe, Paul
The purpose of the research paper is to characterize biological diversity related to millets in the semi-arid regions of India at various spatial scales of analysis (e.g., farm household versus...
CHILD NUTRITION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN VIETNAM IN THE 1990S
Glewwe, Paul, Koch, Stefanie, Nguyen, Bui Linh
Child malnutrition is pervasive in almost every developing country. Economic growth can lead to better child nutrition, but the size and nature of this effect can vary widely across countries. This...
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin
A randomized evaluation in rural Kenya finds, contrary to the previous literature, that providing textbooks did not raise average test scores. Textbooks did increase the scores of the best students...
The determinants of school attainment in sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Ghana
This paper investigates the factors that determine educational attainment in Ghana. The following specific questions are addressed: 1) What are the relative impacts of economic growth and...
Impacts of Rising Food Prices on Poverty and Welfare in Vietnam.
This paper examines the impacts of rising food prices on poverty and welfare in Vietnam. Increases in food prices raise the real incomes of those selling food, but reduce the welfare of net food...
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin
The data sets contain data that were collected for a series of randomized evaluations conducted in two poor and densely settled rural districts in western Kenya, Busia and Teso. These evaluations...
Paul Glewwe, Hai-Anh Hoang Dang
Computers were provided to randomly selected districts participating in a household survey in Vietnam to assess the impact on data quality of entering data within a day or two of completing the...
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
Grantham-McGregor, Sally, Cheung, Yin Bun, Cueto, Santiago, Glewwe, Paul, Richter, Linda, Strupp, Barbara
Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally affect...