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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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Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia
Norbert Schady,Deon Filmer +1 more
TL;DR: This article 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.
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The structure of social disparities in education : gender and wealth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how gender and wealth interact to generate within country inequalities in educational enrollment and attainment, and found that women are at a great educational disadvantage in countries in South Asia and North, Western, and Central Africa.
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Inequalities in children’s schooling: AIDS, orphanhood, poverty, and gender
Martha Ainsworth,Deon Filmer +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between orphan status, household economic status, and child school enrollment across low-income countries varies substantially as discussed by the authors, and policies need to assess country-specific situations, focusing on the interaction between child status, poverty, and the education system more generally.
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Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in sub-Saharan Africa.
TL;DR: There is sufficient variation across countries that any policy seeking to reform the health sector in order to better cater to the poor needs to be informed by country-specific work.
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School-Based Management
TL;DR: Preface school-based management (SBM) has become a very popular movement over the past decade as discussed by the authors, and the work of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD/The World Bank) is an example of such a movement.