Kenneth L. Leonard

University of Maryland

Assistant Professor

Symmons Hall, Rm 2200

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742-5535

United States

http://faculty.arec.umd.edu/kleonard/

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1.

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4501
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Jishnu Das, Jeffrey S. Hammer and Kenneth L. Leonard
Georgetown UniversityGeorgetown University, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and University of Maryland
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Health Monitoring & Evaluation, Health Systems Development & Reform, Gender and Health, Health Economics & Finance, Disease Control & Prevention

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Institutional Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem in African Health Care

Columbia University, Economics Department, Discussion Paper No. 9899-02
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Nov 1998
Kenneth L. Leonard and David K. Leonard
University of Maryland and University of California, Berkeley
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Asymmetric Information and the Role of Ngos in African Health Care

Columbia University Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 9899-09
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Sep 1999
Kenneth L. Leonard and David K. Leonard
University of Maryland and University of California, Berkeley
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How to Compensate Physicians When Both Patient and Physician Effort are Unobservable

Columbia University Department of Economics Working Paper No. 9900-01
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Apr 2000
Kenneth L. Leonard and Joshua Graff Zivin
University of Maryland and Columbia University - Department of Health Policy and Management
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African Traditional Healers: Incentives and Skill in Health Care Delivery

Discussion Paper No. 9798-13
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Nov 1998
Kenneth L. Leonard
University of Maryland
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Using the Hawthorne Effect to Examine the Gap between a Doctor's Best Possible Practice and Actual Performance

AREC Working Paper No. 08-04
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 May 2008
Kenneth L. Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu
University of Maryland and CEDHA
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Motivation, Practice Quality, Health Care, Tanzania, Hawthorne Effect

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African Traditional Healers and Outcome--Contingent Contracts in Health Care

Columbia University Working Paper No. 9900-02
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Jun 2000
Kenneth L. Leonard
University of Maryland
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Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

NBER Working Paper No. w13727
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Uri Gneezy, Kenneth L. Leonard and John A. List
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, University of Maryland and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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Bypassing Health Centers in Tanzania: Revealed Preferences for Observable and Unobservable

Columbia University Discussion Paper No. 0001-02
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 May 2001
Kenneth L. Leonard, Gilbert R. Mliga and Damen Haile Mariam
University of Maryland, Government of Tanzania and Addis Ababa University - School of Public Health
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Health Center Bypassing, NGO, Rural Health Care, Tanzania, Technical Quality, Agency in Health Care

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Institutional Structure of Health Care in Rural Cameroun: Structural Estimation of Production in Teams with Unobservable Effort

Columbia University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 9798-16
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Feb 1999
Kenneth L. Leonard
University of Maryland
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Women's Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry, and Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7699
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Jul 2016
Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Kathryn N. Vasilaky, Kenneth L. Leonard, Joao Montalvao and Kathryn Vasilaky
World Bank, World Bank, California Polytechnic State U, University of Maryland, World Bank and Columbia University
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Anthropology, Gender and Development, Gender and Social Development, Gender and Law, Adolescent Health

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The Three-Gap Model of Health Worker Performance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8782
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Mar 2019
Fabliha Ibnat, Kenneth L. Leonard, Luke Bawo and Rianna L. Mohammed-Roberts
University of Maryland, University of Maryland, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania and World Bank
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Health Care Services Industry, Health Service Management and Delivery, Pharmaceuticals Industry, Pharmaceuticals & Pharmacoeconomics

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The Direction of the Hawthorne Effect: Evidence from Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Vietnam

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Jul 2023
David Haeyun Noh, Jongwook Lee, Kenneth L. Leonard and Sangchul Yoon
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Minnesota, University of Maryland and Yonsei University - Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
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Hawthorne effect, Program fidelity, Sex education, Classroom observation

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Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers

NBER Working Paper No. w9797
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022
Kenneth L. Leonard and Joshua Graff Zivin
University of Maryland and Columbia University - Department of Health Policy and Management
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Women's Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria

NBER Working Paper No. w30789
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 26 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Marcel Fafchamps, Markus Goldstein, Kenneth L. Leonard and Sreelakshmi Papineni
International Food Policy Research Institute, Stanford University, Independent, University of Maryland and World Bank
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