Christel M.J. Vermeersch

World Bank · Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice

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 guideli...

Considerando que un país próspero necesita un sistema de salud moderno, inclusivo y efectivo, el espíritu de este documento es acompañar a los peruanos en consolidar su visión de aseguramiento en salud al 2021, identificar cuellos de botella en alcanzarla, y proponer posibles opciones de política. Con base en un análisis de los roles de las institu...

The adoption of new clinical practice patterns by medical care providers is often challenging, even when the patterns are believed to be efficacious and profitable. This paper uses a randomized field experiment to examine the effects of temporary financial incentives paid to medical care clinics for the initiation of prenatal care in the first trim...

This Country Summary Report on Peru is one of the 11 country studies on UHC that was commissioned under the Japan–World Bank Partnership Program. The other participating countries are Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. A synthesis of these country reports is in the publication “Universal He...

A substantial literature shows that U.S. early childhood interventions have important long-term economic benefits. However, there is little evidence on this question for developing countries. We report substantial effects on the earnings of participants in a randomized intervention conducted in 1986–1987 that gave psychosocial stimulation to growth...

We nested a large-scale field experiment into the national rollout of the introduction of performance pay for medical care providers in Rwanda to study the effect of incentives for health care providers. In order to identify the effect of incentives separately from higher compensation, we held constant compensation across treatment and comparison g...

Pay for performance (P4P) is generating interest in Africa. This chapter is an early look at Sub-Saharan Africa’s experience with this approach. To date more than 20 African countries have pilots or programs providing some elements of P4P to their health workers. The chapter proposes a framework to analyze how P4P affects the number, distribution a...

This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the height-for-age of children 24-49 months. They attribute this i...

Evidence about the best methods with which to accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals is urgently needed. We assessed the effect of performance-based payment of health-care providers (payment for performance; P4P) on use and quality of child and maternal care services in health-care facilities in Rwanda. 166 facilitie...

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Paying for performance (P4P) provides financial incentives for providers to increase the use and quality of care. P4P can affect health care by providing incentives for providers to put more effort into specific activities, and by increasing the amount of resources available to finance the delivery of services. This paper evaluates the impact of P4...

This paper estimates the impact of the full-time school program in Uruguay on standardized test scores of 6th grade students. The program lengthened the school day from a half day to a full day, and provided additional inputs to schools to make this possible, such as additional teachers and construction of classrooms. The program was not randomly p...

This paper empirically investigates the e¤ects of memberships in information and social networks on the demand for public goods. The data originate from a unique …eld experiment that took place during the …rst round of the 2001 presidential elections in Benin. Randomly selected villages were exposed to "purely" redistributive or "purely" national p...

This paper examines the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting. The paper uses data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than i...

This paper empirically investigates the eects of membership in information and social networks on the demand for public goods. The data originate from a unique …eld experiment that took place during the …rst round of the 2001 presidential elections in Benin. Randomly selected villages were exposed to "purely"national public goods or "purely"redistr...

Thesis (Ph. D., Dept. of Economics)--Harvard University, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-134).