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World Bank

OtherWashington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.


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TL;DR: This article examined the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling and found a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline.
Abstract: To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children's cohorts were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to including control variables, alternative sources for genocide intensity, and an instrumental variables strategy.

302 citations

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Martin Ravallion1
TL;DR: The authors found that consumption-poverty measures in developing countries respond elastically to changes in mean consumption, although there is a high variance in poverty outcomes at a given rate of growth.

301 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impact of a pilot farmer-field-school (FFS) program on farmers' knowledge of integrated pest management (IPM) practices related to potato cultivation.
Abstract: Using survey data from Peru, this article evaluates the impact of a pilot farmer‐field‐school (FFS) program on farmers’ knowledge of integrated pest management (IPM) practices related to potato cultivation. We use both regression analysis controlling for participation and a propensity score matching approach to create a comparison group similar to the FFS participants in observable characteristics. Results are robust across the two approaches as well as with different matching methods. We find that farmers who participate in the program have significantly more knowledge about IPM practices than those in the nonparticipant comparison group. We also find suggestive evidence that improved knowledge about IPM practices has the potential to significantly improve productivity in potato production.

300 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the possibility that the North and South may have differing technological needs, and discuss how the North's labor saving innovations are less useful in the South, where labor is cheap Southern patents might promote the development of technologies appropriate to the South that might not have been developed if there were no patents.
Abstract: In this paper, the authors discuss the possibility that the North and South may have differing technological needs Just as the North would like to develop drugs against cancer and heart disease, and the South drugs against tropical disease, so the North's labor saving innovations are less useful in the South, where labor is cheap Southern patents might promote the development of technologies appropriate to the South that might not have been developed if there were no patents In this case, lower patent protection in the South would not benefit the South and increased patent protection in the South can hurt the North when the resources to go into RD free entry in the RD and gradations of patent protection The report concludes by reviewing the results of the analysis

300 citations

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TL;DR: This article studied what happens to the banking system in the aftermath of a banking crisis using aggregate and bank level data for several countries, and found that contemporary crises are not accompanied by declines in aggregate bank deposits, and credit does not fall relative to output.
Abstract: Using aggregate and bank level data for several countries, the paper studies what happens to the banking system in the aftermath of a banking crisis. Contemporary crises are not accompanied by declines in aggregate bank deposits, and credit does not fall relative to output, although the growth of both deposits and credit slows down substantially. Output recovery begins in the second year after the crisis and is not led by a resumption in credit growth. Banks, including the stronger ones, reallocate their asset portfolio away from loans.

300 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Joseph E. Stiglitz1641142152469
Barry M. Popkin15775190453
Dan J. Stein1421727132718
Asli Demirguc-Kunt13742978166
Elinor Ostrom126430104959
David Scott124156182554
Ross Levine122398108067
Barry Eichengreen11694951073
Martin Ravallion11557055380
Kenneth H. Mayer115135164698
Angus Deaton11036366325
Timothy Besley10336845988
Lawrence H. Summers10228558555
Shang-Jin Wei10141539112
Thorsten Beck9937362708
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202330
202281
2021491
2020594
2019604
2018637