Browsing by Author "Levy, Dan"

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    • Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania 

      Arkedis, Jean; Creighton, Jessica; Dixit, Akshay; Fung, Archon; Kosack, Stephen; Levy, Dan; Tolmie, Courtney (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-05)
      We assess the impact of a transparency and accountability program designed to improve maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes in Indonesia and Tanzania. Co-designed with local partner organizations to be community-led ...

    • Cold Calling and Web Postings: Do They Improve Students’ Preparation and Learning? 

      Levy, Dan; Bookin, Joshua Alan (2017-04-17)
      Cold calling and pre-class web postings are frequently used to encourage students to read and come better prepared to class. Randomized experiments were conducted in two sections of an Empirical Methods course (API- 202) ...

    • The Effects of 'Girl-Friendly' Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso 

      Harounan, Kazianga; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)
      We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program increased enrollment by 19 percentage points and increased test scores by 0.41 ...

    • Essays in Optimizing Social Policy for Different Populations: Education, Targeting, and Impact Evaluation 

      Nadel, Sara B. (2016-05-18)
      In the first chapter of this dissertation, I look at the relationship between preference sets among students in similar majors, compared with different majors, in Peru. I find that students within majors share preference ...

    • Essays on Development Economics 

      Islam, Mahnaz (2015-05-18)
      This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred ...

    • Evaluating Health Interventions Over Time: Empirical Tests of the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design 

      Svoronos, Theodore (2016-08-29)
      Single interrupted time series (ITS) is a quasi-experimental evaluation design used frequently in the health policy literature. This manuscript investigates the validity of single ITS through two within-study comparisons ...

    • Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme 

      Levy, Dan; Ohls, Jim (Routledge, 2010)
      This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ...

    • Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom 

      Levy, Dan; Yardley, Joshua Shawn; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay (2016)
      Some preliminary experiments the authors conducted suggested that when instructors asked students to raise their hands to indicate support for a certain answer or position, the results they got were very different than ...

    • Insights from Transparency and Accountability Action Plans in Indonesia and Tanzania 

      Creighton, Jessica; Arkedis, Jean; Fung, Archon; Kosack, Steve; Levy, Dan; Tolmie, Courtney (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2020-01)
      This paper provides insight into community designed and led actions in Indonesia and Tanzania that were prompted by Transparency for Development (T4D), a six-year research project that explores whether, how, and in what ...

    • Transparency for Development Baseline Report 

      Arkedis, Jean; Creighton, Jessica; Fung, Archon; Kosack, Stephen; Levy, Dan; Naimpally, Rohit; Roots, Lindsey; Tolmie, Courtney (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2016-09)
      This baseline report describes the baseline data collection activities, baseline findings and revised primary outcomes for the impact evaluation of phase one of the Transparency for Development (T4D) project. The report ...

    • Transparency for Development: Evaluation Design Report 

      Arkedis, Jean; Creighton, Jessica; Fung, Archon; Kosack, Stephen; Levy, Dan; Naimpally, Rohit; Tolmie, Courtney (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2015-02)
      The Transparency for Development Evaluation Design Report describes the mixed methods evaluation design for the Transparency for Development project as of February 2015 – just before the start of the first data collection ...

    • Transparency for Development: Pre-Analysis Plan 

      Bombyk, Matthew; Creighton, Jessica; Dixit, Akshay; Levy, Dan; Roots, Lindsey (2018-04)
      The goal of the analysis described here is to identify the effects of the Transparency for Development program intervention on a range of maternal health and community participation outcomes as well as intermediate or ...

    • Transparency for Development: Project Results & Implications 

      Fung, Archon; Arkedis, Jean; Creighton, Jessica; Kosack, Steve; Levy, Dan; Tolmie, Courtney (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2021-01)
      The Transparency for Development (T4D) project was launched in 2013 to try to answer these challenging questions and to make sense of a highly mixed evidence base. Ultimately, we sought to design research that could provide ...

    • Two-Stage Examinations: Can Examinations Be More Formative Experiences? 

      Levy, Dan; Klinger, Mae; Svoronos, Theodore (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)
      Two-stage examinations consist of a first stage in which students work individually as they typically do in examinations (stage 1), followed by a second stage in which they work in groups to complete another examination ...

    • Why is Chiapas Poor? 

      Levy, Dan; Hausmann, Ricardo; Santos, Miguel Angel; Espinoza, Luis; Flores, Miguel (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-03)
      No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32 federal entities, at barely 40% of the national median (Figure 1). Its growth rate for ...