Justin Sandefur

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We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Website

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 362
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Sarah Dykstra, Benjamin Dykstra and Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development, Independent and Center for Global Development
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poverty, inequality, consumption, income distribution, open data

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Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 321
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 May 2013
Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Alice Ng'ang'a and Justin Sandefur
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), University of Connecticut - Department of Economics, University of Nairobi - Department of Economics, Strathmore University and Center for Global Development
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education, randomized control trials, Kenya

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Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia's Schools? Preliminary Results from Year One of a Three-Year Randomized Evaluation of Partnership Schools for Liberia

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 462
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 Nov 2017
Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Sandholtz
ITAM, Centro de Investigación Económica, Center for Global Development and University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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public-private partnership, randomized controlled trial, school management

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Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 271
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Dec 2011
Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), University of Connecticut - Department of Economics, University of Nairobi - Department of Economics and Center for Global Development
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Kenya, public school enrollment, education

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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6908
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Daniel Ayalew Ali, Matthew Collin, Klaus Deininger, Stefan Dercon, Justin Sandefur and Andrew Zeitlin
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), University of Oxford, World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC), University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Center for Global Development and Georgetown University
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Markets and Market Access, Economic Theory & Research, Banks & Banking Reform, Municipal Housing and Land, Political Economy

The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 369
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2014
Daniel Ayalew Ali, Matthew Collin, Klaus Deininger, Stefan Dercon, Justin Sandefur and Andrew Zeitlin
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), University of Oxford, World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC), University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Center for Global Development and Georgetown University
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land titling, formalization, gender, field experiment, Tanzania

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The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Feb 2012
Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), University of Connecticut - Department of Economics, University of Nairobi - Department of Economics and Center for Global Development
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Kenya, education

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Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 336
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Dec 2013
Lant Pritchett and Justin Sandefur
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Center for Global Development
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external validity, treatment effects, policy evaluation, causal inference

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The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jul 2014
Justin Sandefur and Amanda L. Glassman
Center for Global Development and Center for Global Development
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Africa, national statistics systems, household surveys, administrative data, immunization, school enrollment, EMIS, HMIS

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The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 394
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Jun 2015
Sarah Dykstra, Amanda L. Glassman, Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development, Center for Global Development, Center for Global Development and Center for Global Development
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aid, vaccination, immunization, fungibility, regression discontinuity

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Internationally Comparable Mathematics Scores for Fourteen African Countries

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 444
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Jan 2017
Justin Sandefur
Center for Global Development
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learning assessments, education quality, human capital, Africa

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Costing a Data Revolution

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 383
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Jun 2015
Gabriel Demombynes and Justin Sandefur
World Bank and Center for Global Development
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household surveys, national statistics, open data, aid, Sustainable Development goals

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Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

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Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 457, June 2017
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Aug 2017
Nicholas Barton, Tessa Bold and Justin Sandefur
Goethe University Frankfurt, Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) and Center for Global Development
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Civil Servants, Teachers, Public Sector Wages, Wage Gap, Motivation

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Can Free Provision Reduce Demand for Public Services? Evidence from Kenyan Education

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6685
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), University of Connecticut - Department of Economics, University of Nairobi - Department of Economics and Center for Global Development
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Primary Education, Education For All, Teaching and Learning, Tertiary Education, Secondary Education