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Deon Filmer
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 153
Citations - 20059
Deon Filmer is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Population. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 148 publications receiving 18682 citations. Previous affiliations of Deon Filmer include World Bank Group & International Monetary Fund.
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Incentivizing Schooling for Learning: Evidence on the Impact of Alternative Targeting Approaches
TL;DR: This paper evaluated a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one based on poverty level and the other based on baseline test scores ("merit") and found that only the merit-based targeting induced positive effects on test scores.
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Fever and Its Treatment among the More and Less Poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: Filmer et al. as discussed by the authors empirically explored the relationship between household poverty and the incidence and treatment of fever among children in Sub-Saharan Africa, using household Demographic and Health Survey data collected in the 1990s from 22 countries in which malaria is prevalent.
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Own and Sibling Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Theory and Evidence from Cambodia1
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model of schooling decisions highlights three different effects of a child-specific CCT: an income effect, a substitution effect, and a displacement effect, which is consistent with evidence from Cambodia, where the CESSP Scholarship Program (CSP) makes modest transfers, conditional on school enrollment for children of middle-school age.
Local Inequality and Project Choice in a Social Investment Fund
M. Caridad Araujo,Francisco H. G. Ferreira,Peter Lanjouw,Berk Ozler,Deon Filmer,Chris Elbers,Emanuela Galasso,Jesko Hentschel,Albert Park,Laura B. Rawlings,Norbert Schady,Roy van der Weide +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of project choice in the presence of local inequalities in influence is proposed, which finds that communities with higher levels of estimated (consumption) inequality are less likely to receive any projects from Ecuador's Social Investment Funds (FISE) and, conditional on receiving a project, less likely have projects that provide excludable goods for the poor, such as latrines.
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A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education
TL;DR: Even though Brazil is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal for primary schooling completion, the majority of youth are not reaching even minimal competency levels, let alone the competencies demanded in a globalized environment as discussed by the authors.