Paul J Gertler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6045554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul J Gertler |
| PRENOMES | Paul J |
| SOBRENOME | Gertler |
| ASSINATURA | GERTLER P J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 220 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Does Combating Corruption Reduce Clientelism
Does combating corruption reduce clientelism? To investigate this question, we focus on a policy that has been widely used across the world: anti-corruption audits. We examine the impact of Brazil’s prominent audit programme on clientelism using a novel survey of rural citizens. Randomised audits reduce politicians’ provision of campaign handouts, decrease citizens’ demands for private goods, and reduce requests fulfilled by politicians. We inves…
Road maintenance and local economic development
This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of highway maintenance investments. We instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia’s two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road quality from 1990–2007, we find evidence that better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing labor income. Road quality also changes t…
Can a private sector engagement intervention that prioritizes pro-poor strategies improve healthcare access and quality? A randomized field experiment in Kenya
Private sector engagement in health reform has been suggested to help reduce healthcare inequities in sub-Saharan Africa, where populations with the most need seek the least care. We study the effects of African Health Markets for Equity (AHME), a cluster randomized controlled trial carried out in Kenya from 2012 to 2020 at 199 private health clinics. AHME included four clinic-level interventions: social health insurance, social franchising, Safe…
Associations of a national tax on non-essential high calorie foods with changes in consumer prices
Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments
Shelter from the storm
Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition
The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact …
Contribution of air conditioning adoption to future energy use under global warming
Significance The use of air conditioning is poised to increase dramatically over the next several decades as global temperatures go up and incomes rise around the world. In this paper, we use high-quality microdata from Mexico to characterize empirically the relationship between temperature, income, and air conditioning. We describe both how electricity consumption increases with temperature given current levels of air conditioning, and how clima…
The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health in Rural Madhya Pradesh
BACKGROUND: Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation programs. India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is one such program that seeks to end the practice of open defecation by changing social norms and behaviors, and providing technical support and financial subsidies. The objective…
Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards
Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that poor rural Mexican households invested part of their cash transfers from the Oportunidades program in productive assets, increasing agricultural income by almost 10 percent after 18 months of benefits. We estimate that for each peso transferred, households consume 74 cents and invest the rest, permanently increasing long-term consumption by about 1.6 cents. Results suggest that cash transfers …
Effect on maternal and child health services in Rwanda of payment to primary health-care providers for performance
La evaluación de impacto en la práctica
La segunda edición del libro "Evaluación de impacto en la práctica" es una introducción completa y accesible a las evaluaciones del impacto para la comunidad internacional de desarrollo, universidades, y los formuladores de políticas públicas que buscan contar con una mejor evidencia en torno a lo que funciona en el desarrollo. La versión actualizada abarca las técnicas más recientes para evaluar programas e incluye consejos de implementación de …
Empowering parents to improve education
Year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour
Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development
Welfare gains from Foreign Direct Investment through technology transfer to local suppliers
Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world
Parallel deficits in linear growth and mental development in low-income Mexican infants in the second year of life
Objective To explore anthropometric indicators and mental development in very-low-income children in the second year of life. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting Low-income areas (income Subjects Eight hundred and ninety-six children aged 12.5–23.5 months surveyed from September to December 2001. Methods Questionnaire survey and anthropometric survey of households. Multivariate regression models evaluated differences across age in anthropometr…
Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Blunted Cortisol Stress Responses in Very Low-Income Women
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between depressive symptoms and salivary cortisol responses to stress in a high-risk population of very poor Mexican women. METHODS: Adult women (N = 1109) between the ages of 18 and 44 years (mean age, 29) were identified in a house-to-house survey in low-income areas (income <20th percentile nationally) of urban Mexico. An interview containing the Spanish version of the Center …
Learning from exporting revisited in a less developed setting
Empowerment and Efficiency
The paper analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security of tenure to tenants and regulating the share of output that is paid as rent on farm productivity. Theoretically, the net impact of tenancy reform is shown to be a combination of two effects: a bargaining power effect and a security of tenure effect. Analysis of evidence on how contracts and productivity changed after a tenancy reform program was implemented in the India…
On the road to social health insurance
How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility
This paper examines the contributions of family planning programs, economic development, and women’s status to Indonesian fertility decline from 1982 to 1987. Methodologically we unify seemingly conflicting demographic and economic frameworks into a single “structural” proximate-cause model as well as controlling statistically for the targeted (nonrandom) placement of family planning program inputs. The results are consistent with both frameworks…
Medicaid and the Cost of Improving Access to Nursing Home Care
In this paper I show that the Medicaid program can improve the access of financially indigent patients to nursing home care by raising the rate of return paid on Medicaid patients' care, but only at the cost of lower quality of care. To quantify the policy tradeoff, I derive expressions for the elasticity of access with respect to total Medicaid expenditures and the elasticity of access with respect to quality. These elasticities expressions are …
Quality-adjusted Cost Functions and Policy Evaluation in the Nursing Home Industry
Proper evaluation of cost-quality trade-offs inherent in regulatory policy requires identifying the structure of production from the behavioral response of quality to the policy change. However, estimating the structure of production with endogenous quality is difficult because of both measurement problems and data availability. The authors develop a simple method for identifying and estimating cost functions in the presence of endogenous and uno…
Empowerment and Efficiency
The paper analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security of tenure to tenants and regulating the share of output that is paid as rent on farm productivity. Theoretically, the net impact of tenancy reform is shown to be a combination of two effects: a bargaining power effect and a security of tenure effect. Analysis of evidence on how contracts and productivity changed after a tenancy reform program was implemented in the India…
How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility
This paper examines the contributions of family planning programs, economic development, and women’s status to Indonesian fertility decline from 1982 to 1987. Methodologically we unify seemingly conflicting demographic and economic frameworks into a single “structural” proximate-cause model as well as controlling statistically for the targeted (nonrandom) placement of family planning program inputs. The results are consistent with both frameworks…
Learning from exporting revisited in a less developed setting
Shelter from the storm
Empowering parents to improve education
Quality-adjusted Cost Functions and Policy Evaluation in the Nursing Home Industry
Proper evaluation of cost-quality trade-offs inherent in regulatory policy requires identifying the structure of production from the behavioral response of quality to the policy change. However, estimating the structure of production with endogenous quality is difficult because of both measurement problems and data availability. The authors develop a simple method for identifying and estimating cost functions in the presence of endogenous and uno…
Road maintenance and local economic development
This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of highway maintenance investments. We instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia’s two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road quality from 1990–2007, we find evidence that better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing labor income. Road quality also changes t…
On the road to social health insurance
A Latent-Variable Model of Quality Determination
Because of data difficulties, there has been little empirical work analyzing the determination of the quality of a firm's output. This article constructs a latent variable model for this problem that uses easily obtainable data. The model is developed from the relationship between the firm's input demand functions and reduced-form output functions, and it has a novel multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) interpretation. The model also allows …
Medicaid and the Cost of Improving Access to Nursing Home Care
In this paper I show that the Medicaid program can improve the access of financially indigent patients to nursing home care by raising the rate of return paid on Medicaid patients' care, but only at the cost of lower quality of care. To quantify the policy tradeoff, I derive expressions for the elasticity of access with respect to total Medicaid expenditures and the elasticity of access with respect to quality. These elasticities expressions are …
Quality-adjusted Cost Functions and Policy Evaluation in the Nursing Home Industry
Proper evaluation of cost-quality trade-offs inherent in regulatory policy requires identifying the structure of production from the behavioral response of quality to the policy change. However, estimating the structure of production with endogenous quality is difficult because of both measurement problems and data availability. The authors develop a simple method for identifying and estimating cost functions in the presence of endogenous and uno…
How Economic Development and Family Planning Programs Combined to Reduce Indonesian Fertility
This paper examines the contributions of family planning programs, economic development, and women’s status to Indonesian fertility decline from 1982 to 1987. Methodologically we unify seemingly conflicting demographic and economic frameworks into a single “structural” proximate-cause model as well as controlling statistically for the targeted (nonrandom) placement of family planning program inputs. The results are consistent with both frameworks…
On the road to social health insurance
Empowerment and Efficiency
The paper analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security of tenure to tenants and regulating the share of output that is paid as rent on farm productivity. Theoretically, the net impact of tenancy reform is shown to be a combination of two effects: a bargaining power effect and a security of tenure effect. Analysis of evidence on how contracts and productivity changed after a tenancy reform program was implemented in the India…
Learning from exporting revisited in a less developed setting
Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Blunted Cortisol Stress Responses in Very Low-Income Women
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between depressive symptoms and salivary cortisol responses to stress in a high-risk population of very poor Mexican women. METHODS: Adult women (N = 1109) between the ages of 18 and 44 years (mean age, 29) were identified in a house-to-house survey in low-income areas (income <20th percentile nationally) of urban Mexico. An interview containing the Spanish version of the Center …
Parallel deficits in linear growth and mental development in low-income Mexican infants in the second year of life
Objective To explore anthropometric indicators and mental development in very-low-income children in the second year of life. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting Low-income areas (income Subjects Eight hundred and ninety-six children aged 12.5–23.5 months surveyed from September to December 2001. Methods Questionnaire survey and anthropometric survey of households. Multivariate regression models evaluated differences across age in anthropometr…
Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world
Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development
Welfare gains from Foreign Direct Investment through technology transfer to local suppliers
Year effect of Oportunidades, Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme, on child growth, cognition, language, and behaviour
Effect on maternal and child health services in Rwanda of payment to primary health-care providers for performance
La evaluación de impacto en la práctica
La segunda edición del libro "Evaluación de impacto en la práctica" es una introducción completa y accesible a las evaluaciones del impacto para la comunidad internacional de desarrollo, universidades, y los formuladores de políticas públicas que buscan contar con una mejor evidencia en torno a lo que funciona en el desarrollo. La versión actualizada abarca las técnicas más recientes para evaluar programas e incluye consejos de implementación de …
Empowering parents to improve education
Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards
Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that poor rural Mexican households invested part of their cash transfers from the Oportunidades program in productive assets, increasing agricultural income by almost 10 percent after 18 months of benefits. We estimate that for each peso transferred, households consume 74 cents and invest the rest, permanently increasing long-term consumption by about 1.6 cents. Results suggest that cash transfers …
The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health in Rural Madhya Pradesh
BACKGROUND: Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation programs. India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is one such program that seeks to end the practice of open defecation by changing social norms and behaviors, and providing technical support and financial subsidies. The objective…
Contribution of air conditioning adoption to future energy use under global warming
Significance The use of air conditioning is poised to increase dramatically over the next several decades as global temperatures go up and incomes rise around the world. In this paper, we use high-quality microdata from Mexico to characterize empirically the relationship between temperature, income, and air conditioning. We describe both how electricity consumption increases with temperature given current levels of air conditioning, and how clima…
Impact Evaluation in Practice, Second Edition
The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact …
Shelter from the storm
Associations of a national tax on non-essential high calorie foods with changes in consumer prices
Aspiration adaptation in resource-constrained environments
Can a private sector engagement intervention that prioritizes pro-poor strategies improve healthcare access and quality? A randomized field experiment in Kenya
Private sector engagement in health reform has been suggested to help reduce healthcare inequities in sub-Saharan Africa, where populations with the most need seek the least care. We study the effects of African Health Markets for Equity (AHME), a cluster randomized controlled trial carried out in Kenya from 2012 to 2020 at 199 private health clinics. AHME included four clinic-level interventions: social health insurance, social franchising, Safe…
Road maintenance and local economic development
This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of highway maintenance investments. We instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia’s two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road quality from 1990–2007, we find evidence that better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing labor income. Road quality also changes t…
Economics (18 obras) · Business (13 obras) · Economic growth (11 obras) · Medicine (11 obras) · Environmental health (7 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 obras) · Demographic economics (6 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Global Maternal and Child Health (6 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 obras)