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David K. Evans

Not to be confused with: David A. Evans, David S. Evans

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First Name:David
Middle Name:K.
Last Name:Evans
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Center for Global Development (CGD)

Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
https://www.cgdev.org/
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Working papers

  1. David K. Evans & Pamela Jakiela, 2024. "The Role of Fathers in Promoting Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence," Working Papers 686, Center for Global Development.
  2. David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2024. "Changing Perceptions of Educational Returns in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis," Working Papers 699, Center for Global Development.
  3. David K. Evans & Pamela Jakiela & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2024. "The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children’s Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review," Working Papers 676, Center for Global Development.
  4. David K. Evans & Kiersten Robertson, 2023. "How the Media Cover School Violence: Evidence from Five African Countries," Working Papers 666, Center for Global Development.
  5. David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Gabriela Smarrelli & Dongyi Wu, 2023. "When the Data You Have Aren’t the Data You Need: School-Related Violence Data Availability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Working Papers 658, Center for Global Development.
  6. Sergio Cárdenas & David K. Evans & Peter Holland, 2023. "Parent Training and Child Development at Low Cost? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Mexico," Working Papers 651, Center for Global Development.
  7. David K. Evans & Katrina Kosec, 2022. "Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania," Working Papers 626, Center for Global Development.
  8. Attanasio, Orazio & de Barros, Ricardo Paes & Carneiro, Pedro & Evans, David K. & Lima, Lycia & Olinto, Pedro & Schady, Norbert, 2022. "Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil," IZA Discussion Papers 15705, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  9. Laura Moscoviz & David K. Evans, 2022. "Learning Loss and Student Dropouts during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Evidence Two Years after Schools Shut Down," Working Papers 609, Center for Global Development.
  10. Matthew Collin & Vincenzo Di Maro & David K. Evans & Fredrick Manang, 2022. "Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania: Can Nudges Help?," Working Papers 621, Center for Global Development.
  11. David Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2021. "How to Measure Student Absenteeism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries," Working Papers 600, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Aug 2023.
  12. David Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2021. "How to Recruit Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Low- And Middle-Income Countries," Working Papers 595, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Aug 2023.
  13. David K. Evans, 2021. "Education Technology for Effective Teachers," World Bank Publications - Reports 35079, The World Bank Group.
  14. Lee Crawfurd & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Justin Sandefur, 2021. "Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone," Working Papers 591, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Jun 2023.
  15. David K. Evans, 2021. "Towards Improved and More Transparent Ethics in Randomised Controlled Trials in Development Social Science," Working Papers 565, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Aug 2022.
  16. Vincenzo Di Maro & David K. Evans & Stuti Khemani & Thiago Scot, 2021. "Building State Capacity: What Is the Impact of Development Projects?," Working Papers 598, Center for Global Development.
  17. David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta & Fei Yuan, 2021. "Girls’ Education at Scale," Working Papers 594, Center for Global Development.
  18. David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Peter Holland & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2021. "Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from across Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers 597, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Nov 2022.
  19. Felipe A. Dunsch & David K. Evans & Ezinne Eze-Ajoku & Mario Macis, 2021. "Management, Supervision, and Healthcare: A Field Experiment," Working Papers 578, Center for Global Development.
  20. David K. Evans & Susannah Hares, 2021. "Should Governments and Donors Prioritize Investments in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy?," Working Papers 579, Center for Global Development.
  21. Noam Angrist & Peter Bergman & David K. Evans & Susannah Hares & Matthew C. H. Jukes & Thato Letsomo, 2020. "Practical Lessons for Phone-Based Assessments of Learning," Working Papers 534, Center for Global Development, revised 10 Jul 2020.
  22. David K. Evans & Maryam Akmal & Pamela Jakiela, 2020. "Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View," Working Papers 523, Center for Global Development.
  23. David K. Evans & Fei Yuan, 2020. "How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?," Working Papers 545, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Apr 2022.
  24. David K. Evans & Amina Mendez Acosta, 2020. "Education in Africa: What Are We Learning?," Working Papers 542, Center for Global Development.
  25. Andre Loureiro & Louisee Cruz & Ildo Lautharte & David K. Evans, 2020. "The State of Ceara in Brazil is a Role Model for Reducing Learning Poverty," World Bank Publications - Reports 34156, The World Bank Group.
  26. David K. Evans & Fei Yuan & Deon Filmer, 2020. "Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid? Evidence from 15 Countries," Working Papers 538, Center for Global Development.
  27. Laura Di Giorgio & David K. Evans & Magnus Lindelow & Son Nam Nguyen & Jakob Svensson & Waly Wane & Anna Welander Tärneberg, 2020. "An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries," Working Papers 552, Center for Global Development.
  28. Noam Angrist & David K. Evans & Deon Filmer & Rachel Glennerster & F. Halsey Rogers & Shwetlena Sabarwal, 2020. "How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions Using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric," Working Papers 558, Center for Global Development.
  29. David K. Evans & Charles Gale & Katrina Kosec, 2020. "The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania," Working Papers 563, Center for Global Development, revised 01 Jul 2022.
  30. Anna Popova & David K. Evans & Mary E. Breeding & Violeta Arancibia, 2019. "Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice," Working Papers 517, Center for Global Development.
  31. Evans,David & Yuan,Fei, 2019. "Equivalent Years of Schooling : A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8752, The World Bank.
  32. David Evans & Fei Yuan, 2019. "What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls," Working Papers 513, Center for Global Development.
  33. Evans,David & Holtemeyer,Brian & Kosec,Katrina L., 2018. "Cash transfers increase trust in local government," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8333, The World Bank.
  34. Evans,David & Ngatia,Irene Muthoni, 2018. "School costs, short-run participation, and long-run outcomes : evidence from Kenya," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8421, The World Bank.
  35. Popova,Anna & Evans,David & Arancibia,Violeta, 2016. "Training teachers on the job : what works and how to measure it," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7834, The World Bank.
  36. Evans,David & Holtemeyer,Brian & Kosec,Katrina L., 2016. "Cash transfers and health : evidence from Tanzania," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7882, The World Bank.
  37. Alfaro,Pablo & Evans,David & Holland,Peter Anthony, 2015. "Extending the school day in Latin America and the Caribbean," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7309, The World Bank.
  38. Blimpo,Moussa P. & Evans,David & Lahire,Nathalie, 2015. "Parental human capital and effective school management : evidence from The Gambia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7238, The World Bank.
  39. Evans,David-000213993 & Popova,Anna, 2015. "What really works to improve learning in developing countries ? an analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7203, The World Bank.
  40. Evans,David & Goldstein,Markus P. & Popova,Anna, 2015. "The next wave of deaths from Ebola ? the impact of health care worker mortality," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7344, The World Bank.
  41. Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna, 2015. "Orphans and Ebola : estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7196, The World Bank.
  42. David K. Evans & Anna Popova, 2015. "Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods," Working Papers id:6420, eSocialSciences.
  43. Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna, 2014. "Cash transfers and temptation goods : a review of global evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6886, The World Bank.
  44. Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna, 2014. "Cost-effectiveness measurement in development : accounting for local costs and noisy impacts," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7027, The World Bank.
  45. Sabarwal, Shwetlena & Evans, David K. & Marshak, Anastasia, 2014. "The permanent input hypothesis : the case of textbooks and (no) student learning in Sierra Leone," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7021, The World Bank.
  46. David K. Evans & Arkadipta Ghosh, 2008. "Prioritizing Educational Investments in Children in the Developing World," Working Papers WR-587, RAND Corporation.
  47. Evans, David & Miguel, Edward A., 2005. "Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis," Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series qt14w3s2fh, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.

Articles

  1. Evans, David K. & Yuan, Fei & Filmer, Deon, 2022. "Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).
  2. Cattaneo, Andrea & Adukia, Anjali & Brown, David L. & Christiaensen, Luc & Evans, David K. & Haakenstad, Annie & McMenomy, Theresa & Partridge, Mark & Vaz, Sara & Weiss, Daniel J., 2022. "Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum: New opportunities to inform policy," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
  3. Anna Popova & David K Evans & Mary E Breeding & Violeta Arancibia, 2022. "Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice [Training to Teach Science: Experimental Evidence from Argentina]," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 37(1), pages 107-136.
  4. Evans David K. & Akmal Maryam & Jakiela Pamela, 2021. "Gender gaps in education: The long view," IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Sciendo & Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 12(1), pages 1-27, January.
  5. David K. Evans, 2021. "Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, François Roubaud (Eds.) Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective Oxford University Press, 2020, 448 p., $100.00," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 47(2), pages 551-554, June.
  6. Evans, David K. & Holtemeyer, Brian & Kosec, Katrina, 2019. "Cash transfers increase trust in local government," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 138-155.
  7. David K Evans & Brian Holtemeyer & Katrina Kosec, 2019. "Cash Transfers and Health: Evidence from Tanzania," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 33(2), pages 394-412.
  8. David K. Evans & Anna Welander Tärneberg, 2018. "Health‐care quality and information failure: Evidence from Nigeria," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(3), pages 90-93, March.
  9. David K. Evans & Anna Popova, 2017. "Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 65(2), pages 189-221.
  10. Evans, David K. & Popova, Anna, 2016. "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Development: Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 262-276.
  11. David K. Evans & Anna Popova, 2016. "What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 31(2), pages 242-270.
  12. Moore Melinda & Trujillo Horacio R. & Stearns Brooke K. & Basurto-Davila Ricardo & Evans David K., 2009. "Learning from Exemplary Practices in International Disaster Management: A Fresh Avenue to Inform U.S. Policy?," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, De Gruyter, vol. 6(1), pages 1-40, May.
  13. David Evans & Edward Miguel, 2007. "Orphans and schooling in africa: a longitudinal analysis," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 44(1), pages 35-57, February.

Books

  1. Omar Arias & David K. Evans & Indhira Santos, 2019. "The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa [Le développement des compétences en Afrique subsaharienne, un exercice d’équilibre]," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 31723.
  2. David K. Evans & Stephanie Hausladen & Katrina Kosec & Natasha Reese, 2014. "Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania : Results from a Randomized Trial," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 17220.
  3. Barbara Bruns & David Evans & Javier Luque, 2012. "Achieving World-Class Education in Brazil : The Next Agenda," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2383.
  4. David K. Evans & Katrina Kosec, 2012. "Early Child Education : Making Programs Work for Brazil’s Most Important Generation," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 13144.

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  1. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (13) 2014-09-29 2015-04-25 2015-06-27 2020-08-31 2022-10-31 2022-12-12 2023-09-25 2023-10-02 2023-10-09 2023-10-09 2023-10-16 2024-07-22 2024-09-02. Author is listed
  2. NEP-EDU: Education (10) 2014-10-03 2015-03-05 2015-04-25 2015-06-27 2020-03-02 2020-03-09 2020-03-23 2022-11-21 2023-10-09 2023-10-16. Author is listed
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (9) 2014-06-02 2014-09-29 2014-10-03 2015-04-25 2019-07-29 2019-11-04 2020-08-31 2023-10-02 2023-10-02. Author is listed
  4. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (7) 2015-02-28 2015-07-18 2017-09-03 2017-09-10 2020-09-07 2022-11-21 2022-12-19. Author is listed
  5. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (6) 2014-10-03 2015-04-25 2017-09-03 2017-09-10 2023-10-02 2023-10-09. Author is listed
  6. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (4) 2019-11-04 2020-09-07 2022-12-12 2022-12-19
  7. NEP-GER: German Papers (3) 2014-09-29 2023-10-16 2023-10-16
  8. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (3) 2015-04-25 2017-09-03 2017-09-10
  9. NEP-LAM: Central and South America (3) 2015-06-27 2022-12-12 2022-12-19
  10. NEP-AFR: Africa (2) 2020-09-07 2022-11-21
  11. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (2) 2022-10-31 2023-10-16
  12. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (2) 2022-10-31 2023-10-16
  13. NEP-PPM: Project, Program and Portfolio Management (2) 2022-11-07 2023-10-02
  14. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2022-12-12
  15. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2023-10-02
  16. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2020-03-09
  17. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2020-03-09
  18. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2022-12-19
  19. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (1) 2015-03-05
  20. NEP-NUD: Nudge and Boosting (1) 2023-10-16
  21. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2023-09-25
  22. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2022-10-31
  23. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2023-10-09

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