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Sarah Baird
Researcher at George Washington University
Publications - 116
Citations - 5187
Sarah Baird is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cash transfers. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 105 publications receiving 4345 citations. Previous affiliations of Sarah Baird include Claremont McKenna College & World Bank.
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Cash or Condition? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of conditionality in cash transfer programs with two distinct interventions: unconditional transfers (UCT arm) and transfers conditional on school attendance (CCT arm) targeted at adolescent girls in Malawi on individual level.
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Effect of a cash transfer programme for schooling on prevalence of HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in Malawi: a cluster randomised trial
TL;DR: Cash transfer programmes can reduce HIV and HSV-2 infections in adolescent schoolgirls in low-income settings and detected no significant difference between intervention and control groups for weighted HIV prevalence.
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Scoring corporate environmental and sustainability reports using GRI 2000, ISO 14031 and other criteria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the extent to which current voluntary corporate environmental reports meet the requirements of two new sets of guidelines: (i) the Global Reporting Initiative GRI 2000 sustainability reporting guidelines and (ii) the ISO 14031 environmental performance evaluation standard.
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Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether short-term fluctuations in aggregate income affect infant mortality using an unusually large data set of 1.7 million births in 59 developing countries and show a large, negative association between per capita GDP and infant mortality.
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The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
TL;DR: The Zomba Cash Transfer Program as mentioned in this paper is a randomized, ongoing conditional cash transfer intervention targeting young women in Malawi that provides incentives (in the form of school fees and cash transfers) to current schoolgirls and recent dropouts to stay in or return to school.