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most citedCash versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda

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econ.GN2022

Skills and Liquidity Barriers to Youth Employment: Medium-term Evidence from a Cash Benchmarking Experiment in Rwanda

Craig McIntosh, Andrew Zeitlin

We present results of an experiment benchmarking a workforce training program against cash transfers for underemployed young adults in Rwanda. 3.5 years after treatment, the traini…

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Cash versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda

Craig McIntosh, Andrew Zeitlin

We benchmark a multi-dimensional child nutrition intervention against an unconditional cash transfer of equal cost. Randomized variation in transfer amounts allows us to estimate i…

econ.GN2021

Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels +1

This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor…

econ.GN2020

Teacher turnover in Rwanda

Andrew Zeitlin

Despite widely documented shortfalls of teacher skills and effort, there is little systematic evidence of rates of teacher turnover in low-income countries. I investigate the incid…

econ.GN2020

Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program

Craig McIntosh, Andrew Zeitlin

We use a randomized experiment to compare a workforce training program to cash transfers in Rwanda. Conducted in a sample of poor and underemployed youth, this study measures the i…