Do Index Insurance Programs Live up to their Promises? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments

Abstract

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review

“…We join a growing number of meta-analyses of results from impact evaluations in economics and international education (Bandiera et al, 2021;Castaing and Gazeaud, 2022;Jackson and Mackevicius, 2021;Meager, 2019;Kremer et al, 2022;Vivalt, 2020). A meta-analysis allows us to rigorously aggregate effect sizes into a single average, boost the power of individual studies through pooling, and test important dimensions of heterogeneity.…”