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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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Improving Preschool Provision and Encouraging Demand : Heterogeneous Impacts of a Large-Scale Program
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impacts of a large-scale government program that increased the supply and quality of community preschools in rural Cambodia and found small and significant impacts on cognitive (0.04 standard deviations) and socio-emotional development.
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Preschool and Parental Response in a Second Best World: Evidence from a School Construction Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized evaluation of a preschool construction program in Cambodia suggests that overall impacts on early childhood outcomes are small and insignificant, with the largest negative effects among children of poorer and less educated parents.
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Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impacts of low-cost, performance-based incentives in Tanzanian secondary schools and find that incentives for teachers led to modest average improvements in student achievement across different subjects.
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Estimating the world at work
TL;DR: The work status of the world's working-age population and subgroups thereof was investigated in this article, where the authors presented estimates of a breakdown on employment in services, industry, and agriculture in the world and sub groups there of.
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Getting girls into school: evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia
Deon Filmer,Norbert Schady +1 more
TL;DR: The authors evaluated the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia and found that the scholarship program had a large, positive effect on the school enrollment and attendance of girls.