David K. Evans
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Center for Global Development (CGD)
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- The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children's Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review (RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:463-66)
by David K. Evans & Pamela Jakiela & Amina Mendez Acosta - Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, François Roubaud (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective Oxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00 (RePEc:bla:popdev:v:47:y:2021:i:2:p:551-554)
by David K. Evans - Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, Amy Raub Equality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide University of California Press, 2023, 328 p., $34.95 (o (RePEc:bla:popdev:v:49:y:2023:i:3:p:713-716)
by David K. Evans - Learning from Exemplary Practices in International Disaster Management: A Fresh Avenue to Inform U.S. Policy? (RePEc:bpj:johsem:v:6:y:2009:i:1:p:40:n:15)
by Moore Melinda & Trujillo Horacio R. & Stearns Brooke K. & Basurto-Davila Ricardo & Evans David K. - Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis (RePEc:cdl:ciders:qt14w3s2fh)
by Evans, David & Miguel, Edward A. - Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis (RePEc:cdl:econwp:qt14w3s2fh)
by Evans, David & Miguel, Edward A. - What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:513)
by David Evans & Fei Yuan - Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:517)
by Anna Popova & David K. Evans & Mary E. Breeding & Violeta Arancibia - Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:523)
by David K. Evans & Maryam Akmal & Pamela Jakiela - Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:534)
by Noam Angrist & Peter Bergman & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Matthew C. H. Jukes & Thato Letsomo - Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid? Evidence from 15 Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:538)
by David K. Evans & Fei Yuan & Deon Filmer - Education in Africa: What Are We Learning? (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:542)
by David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta - How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies? (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:545)
by David K. Evans & Fei Yuan - An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:552)
by Laura Di Giorgio & David K. Evans & Magnus Lindelow & Son Nam Nguyen & Jakob Svensson & Waly Wane & Anna Welander Tärneberg - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:558)
by Noam Angrist & David K. Evans & Deon Filmer & Rachel Glennerster & F. Halsey Rogers & Shwetlena Sabarwal - The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:563)
by David K. Evans & Charles Gale & Katrina Kosec - Towards Improved and More Transparent Ethics in Randomised Controlled Trials in Development Social Science (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:565)
by David K. Evans - Management, Supervision, and Healthcare: A Field Experiment (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:578)
by Felipe A. Dunsch & David K. Evans & Ezinne Eze-Ajoku & Mario Macis - Should Governments and Donors Prioritize Investments in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy? (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:579)
by David K. Evans & Susannah Hares - Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:591)
by Lee Crawfurd & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Justin Sandefur - Girls’ Education at Scale (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:594)
by David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta & Fei Yuan - How to Recruit Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Low- And Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:595)
by David Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta - Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from across Sub-Saharan Africa (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:597)
by David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Peter Holland & Amina Mendez Acosta - Building State Capacity: What Is the Impact of Development Projects? (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:598)
by Vincenzo Di Maro & David K. Evans & Stuti Khemani & Thiago Scot - How to Measure Student Absenteeism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:600)
by David Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta - Learning Loss and Student Dropouts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Evidence Two Years after Schools Shut Down (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:609)
by Laura Moscoviz & David K. Evans - Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help? (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:621)
by Matthew Collin & Vincenzo Di Maro & David K. Evans & Fredrick Manang - Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:626)
by David K. Evans & Katrina Kosec - Parent Training and Child Development at Low Cost? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Mexico (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:651)
by Sergio Cárdenas & David K. Evans & Peter Holland - When the Data You Have Aren’t the Data You Need: School-Related Violence Data Availability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:658)
by David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Gabriela Smarrelli & Dongyi Wu - How the Media Cover School Violence: Evidence from Five African Countries (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:666)
by David K. Evans & Kiersten Robertson - The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:676)
by David K. Evans & Pamela Jakiela & Amina Mendez Acosta - The Role of Fathers in Promoting Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:686)
by David K. Evans & Pamela Jakiela - Changing Perceptions of Educational Returns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis (RePEc:cgd:wpaper:699)
by David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta - Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:164:y:2023:i:c:s030438782300069x)
by Crawfurd, Lee & Evans, David K. & Hares, Susannah & Sandefur, Justin - How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? A review of the evidence using a unified metric (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:172:y:2025:i:c:s0304387824001317)
by Angrist, Noam & Evans, David K. & Filmer, Deon & Glennerster, Rachel & Rogers, Halsey & Sabarwal, Shwetlena - The educational impacts of cash transfers in Tanzania (RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:92:y:2023:i:c:s0272775722001054)
by Evans, David K. & Gale, Charles & Kosec, Katrina - How to recruit teachers for hard-to-staff schools: A systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries (RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:95:y:2023:i:c:s0272775723000778)
by Evans, David K. & Mendez Acosta, Amina - How to measure student absenteeism in low- and middle-income countries (RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:96:y:2023:i:c:s0272775723001012)
by Evans, David K. & Mendez Acosta, Amina - Cash transfers increase trust in local government (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:114:y:2019:i:c:p:138-155)
by Evans, David K. & Holtemeyer, Brian & Kosec, Katrina - Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:155:y:2022:i:c:s0305750x22000833)
by Evans, David K. & Yuan, Fei & Filmer, Deon - Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:157:y:2022:i:c:s0305750x22001310)
by Cattaneo, Andrea & Adukia, Anjali & Brown, David L. & Christiaensen, Luc & Evans, David K. & Haakenstad, Annie & McMenomy, Theresa & Partridge, Mark & Vaz, Sara & Weiss, Daniel J. - When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:188:y:2025:i:c:s0305750x25000026)
by Evans, David K. & Hares, Susannah & Smarrelli, Gabriela & Wu, Dongyi - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts (RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:77:y:2016:i:c:p:262-276)
by Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna - Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods (RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:6420)
by David K. Evans & Anna Popova - Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment (RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10967)
by Dunsch, Felipe A. & Evans, David K. & Eze-Ajoku, Ezinne & Macis, Mario - Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil (RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15705)
by Attanasio, Orazio & de Barros, Ricardo Paes & Carneiro, Pedro & Evans, David K. & Lima, Lycia & Olinto, Pedro & Schady, Norbert - Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:23749)
by Felipe A. Dunsch & David K. Evans & Ezinne Eze-Ajoku & Mario Macis - Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30653)
by Orazio Attanasio & Ricardo Paes de Barros & Pedro Carneiro & David K. Evans & Lycia Lima & Pedro Olinto & Norbert Schady - Cash Transfers and Health: Evidence from Tanzania (RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:33:y:2019:i:2:p:394-412.)
by David K Evans & Brian Holtemeyer & Katrina Kosec - School Uniforms, Short-Run Participation, and Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from Kenya (RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:35:y:2021:i:3:p:705-719.)
by David K Evans & Mũthoni Ngatia - What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls (RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:36:y:2022:i:1:p:244-267.)
by David K Evans & Fei Yuan - Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:37:y:2023:i:2:p:221-234.)
by David K Evans & Katrina Kosec - What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews (RePEc:oup:wbrobs:v:31:y:2016:i:2:p:242-270.)
by David K. Evans & Anna Popova - Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice
[Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina] (RePEc:oup:wbrobs:v:37:y:2022:i:1:p:107-136.)
by Anna Popova & David K Evans & Mary E Breeding & Violeta Arancibia - Girls’ Education at Scale (RePEc:oup:wbrobs:v:39:y:2024:i:1:p:47-74.)
by David K Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta & Fei Yuan - Prioritizing Educational Investments in Children in the Developing World (RePEc:ran:wpaper:wr-587)
by David K. Evans & Arkadipta Ghosh - Orphans and schooling in africa: a longitudinal analysis (RePEc:spr:demogr:v:44:y:2007:i:1:p:35-57)
by David Evans & Edward Miguel - Michael R. Kremer (1964–) (RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-52053-2_44)
by David K. Evans - Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science (RePEc:taf:jdevef:v:16:y:2024:i:3:p:306-316)
by David K. Evans - Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa (RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:59:y:2023:i:5:p:739-757)
by David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Peter A. Holland & Amina Mendez Acosta - Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods (RePEc:ucp:ecdecc:doi:10.1086/689575)
by David K. Evans & Anna Popova - Gender gaps in education: The long view (RePEc:vrs:izajdm:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:27:n:6)
by Evans David K. & Akmal Maryam & Jakiela Pamela - Why Do Students Learn so Little? (RePEc:wbk:wboper:22064)
by Melissa Adelman & Juan D. Baron & Moussa Blimpo & David K. Evans & Atabanam Simbou & Noah Yarrow & Noah Yarrow - TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh (RePEc:wbk:wboper:34138)
by Kumar Biswas & T.M. Asaduzzaman & David K. Evans & Sebastian Fehrler & Deepika Ramachandran & Shwetlena Sabarwal - The State of Ceara in Brazil is a Role Model for Reducing Learning Poverty (RePEc:wbk:wboper:34156)
by Andre Loureiro & Louisee Cruz & Ildo Lautharte & David K. Evans - Education Technology for Effective Teachers (RePEc:wbk:wboper:35079)
by David K. Evans - Successful Teachers, Successful Students (RePEc:wbk:wboper:37474)
by David K Evans & Tara Béteille - Early Child Education : Making Programs Work for Brazil’s Most Important Generation (RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:13144)
by David K. Evans & Katrina Kosec - Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania : Results from a Randomized Trial (RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:17220)
by David K. Evans & Stephanie Hausladen & Katrina Kosec & Natasha Reese - Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda (RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:2383)
by Javier Luque & Barbara Bruns & David Evans - The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa
[Le développement des compétences en Afrique subsaharienne, un exercice d’équilibre] (RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:31723)
by Omar Arias & David K. Evans & Indhira Santos - Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania : Can Nudges Help ? (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10148)
by Collin,Matthew Edward & Di Maro,Vincenzo & Evans,David K. & Manang,Frederik - Cash transfers and temptation goods : a review of global evidence (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:6886)
by Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna - The permanent input hypothesis : the case of textbooks and (no) student learning in Sierra Leone (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7021)
by Sabarwal, Shwetlena & Evans, David K. & Marshak, Anastasia - Cost-effectiveness measurement in development : accounting for local costs and noisy impacts (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7027)
by Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna - Orphans and Ebola : estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7196)
by Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna - What really works to improve learning in developing countries ? an analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7203)
by Evans,David-000213993 & Popova,Anna - Parental human capital and effective school management : evidence from The Gambia (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7238)
by Blimpo,Moussa P. & Evans,David & Lahire,Nathalie - Extending the school day in Latin America and the Caribbean (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7309)
by Alfaro,Pablo & Evans,David & Holland,Peter Anthony - The next wave of deaths from Ebola ? the impact of health care worker mortality (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7344)
by Evans,David & Goldstein,Markus P. & Popova,Anna - Training teachers on the job : what works and how to measure it (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7834)
by Popova,Anna & Evans,David & Arancibia,Violeta - Cash transfers and health : evidence from Tanzania (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7882)
by Evans,David & Holtemeyer,Brian & Kosec,Katrina L. - Cash transfers increase trust in local government (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8333)
by Evans,David & Holtemeyer,Brian & Kosec,Katrina L. - School costs, short-run participation, and long-run outcomes : evidence from Kenya (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8421)
by Evans,David & Ngatia,Irene Muthoni - Teacher Professional Development around the World : The Gap between Evidence and Practice (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8572)
by Popova,Anna & Evans,David & Breeding,Mary E. & Arancibia,Violeta - Equivalent Years of Schooling : A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8752)
by Evans,David & Yuan,Fei - What We Learn about Girls'Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:8944)
by Evans,David & Yuan,Fei - Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid? : Evidence from 15 Countries (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:9358)
by Evans,David K. & Yuan,Fei & Filmer,Deon P. - An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal andChild Health : A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:9440)
by Di Giorgio,Laura & Evans,David & Lindelow,Magnus & Nguyen,Son Nam & Svensson,Jakob & Wane,Waly & Tarneberg,Anna Welander - How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently ? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using theNew Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:9450)
by Angrist,Noam & Evans,David & Filmer,Deon P. & Glennerster,Rachel & Rogers,F. Halsey & Sabarwal,Shwetlena - Building State Capacity : What Is the Impact of Development Projects ? (RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:9875)
by Di Maro,Vincenzo & Evans,David K. & Khemani,Stuti & De Gouvea Scot De Arruda,Thiago - Health‐care quality and information failure: Evidence from Nigeria (RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:27:y:2018:i:3:p:e90-e93)
by David K. Evans & Anna Welander Tärneberg