Paul Gertler

TL;DR: The third in the Child Development Series as discussed by the authors assesses strategies to promote child development and to prevent or ameliorate the loss of developmental potential in developing countries by identifying four well-documented risks: stunting, iodine deficiency, iron deficiency anaemia, and inadequate cognitive stimulation, plus four potential risks based on epidemiological evidence.

TL;DR: In this paper, multinational firms operating in emerging markets transfer technology to local suppliers to increase their productivity and to lower input prices to avoid hold-up by any single supplier, the foreign firm must make the technology widely available This technology diffusion induces entry and more competition which lowers prices in the supply market.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the variation in ownership of water provision across time and space generated by the privatization process to find that child mortality fell 8 percent in the areas that privatized their water services and that the effect was largest in the poorest areas.

TL;DR: A core focus of the book is introduced, namely, how a program’s available resources, eligibility criteria for selecting beneficiaries, and timing for mplementation serve to structure options in the selection of impact evaluation methods.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the extent to which families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines excellent measures of health status with consumption information, and find that there are significant economic costs associated with major illness, and that there is very imperfect insurance of consumption over illness episodes.