Marie Gaarder
World Bank
19 Papers
180 Citations
Marie Gaarder is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Conditional cash transfer & Impact evaluation. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 18 publications. Previous affiliations of Marie Gaarder include Inter-American Development Bank & Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
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Papers
Conditional cash transfers and health: unpacking the causal chain
TL;DR: Results are mixed with respect to nutrition and health outcomes, suggesting that encouraging utilisation when the pertinence of services is unknown or of poor quality may not produce the expected effects, while the main policy recommendation is the need to find the right mix of incentives and regulation to improve the quality of care.
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Evidence Gap Maps : A Tool for Promoting Evidence-Informed Policy and Prioritizing Future Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a visual overview of existing systematic reviews or impact evaluations in a sector or subsector, schematically representing the types of interventions evaluated and outcomes reported, and identify key gaps where little or no evidence from impact evaluations and systematic reviews is available and where future research should be focused.
Evaluating the impact of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: an introduction to the special issue
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how unique characteristics of the sub-Saharan African context both shape the design of cash transfer programs and present special challenges to evaluating impact and highlight the new research questions currently being covered by the second generation of impact evaluatat...
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Institutionalisation of government evaluation: balancing trade-offs
Marie Gaarder,Bertha Briceno +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate institutions in Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, and show that for the successful inception of an institutionalised system for evaluation, three common factors stand out: the existence of a democratic system with a vocal opposition, the presence of influential monitoring and evaluation (ME Chile's Dipres is the best placed in terms of enforcement, with its location within the Ministry of Finance and control of an independent budget).
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