Renos Vakis

World Bank Group, Kenya

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The Power of Believing You Can Get Smarter: The Impact of a Growth-Mindset Intervention on Academic Achievement in Peru

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9141
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2020
Ingo Outes-Leon, Alan Sánchez and Renos Vakis
University of Oxford, Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and World Bank Group, Kenya
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Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries

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Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12107
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 May 2019
Norbert Schady, Jere Behrman, Maria Caridad Araujo, Rodrigo Azuero, Raquel Bernal, David Bravo, Florencia López Bóo, Karen Macours, Daniela Marshall, Christina H. Paxson and Renos Vakis
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Pennsylvania, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Emory University - Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - Department of Economics, Centro Encuestas y Estudios Longitudinales Universidad Catolica, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Paris School of Economics (PSE), University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and World Bank Group, Kenya
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cognitive development, poverty, gradients

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You are What (and Where) You Eat: Capturing Food Away from Home in Welfare Measures

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7257
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2019
Maria Gabriela Farfan, Maria Genoni, Renos Vakis, Gabriela Farfan and Maria Eugenia Genoni
World Bank, World Bank, World Bank Group, Kenya, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Duke University
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Inequality, Health Care Services Industry, Labor & Employment Law, Energy Demand, Energy and Mining, Energy and Environment, Disease Control & Prevention

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The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8685
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2018
Julian C. Jamison, Kevin McGee, Gbemisola Oseni, Julie Ting Ting Perng, Ryoko Sato, Tomomi Tanaka and Renos Vakis
University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics, World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, National University of Singapore (NUS), The World Bank and World Bank Group, Kenya
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Mental Health, Inequality, Educational Sciences, Disability, Access of Poor to Social Services, Economic Assistance, Services & Transfers to Poor

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Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home: Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8692
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2019
Maria Gabriela Farfan, Kevin McGee, Julie Ting Ting Perng and Renos Vakis
World Bank, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank Group, Kenya
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Inequality, Educational Sciences, Labor & Employment Law, Health Care Services Industry, Urban Governance and Management, Urban Housing and Land Settlements, Municipal Management and Reform, Urban Housing

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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10501
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Jan 2017
Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio C. Rosati and Renos Vakis
University of Rome Tor Vergata, World Bank, University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and World Bank Group, Kenya
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women's economic capacity, female empowerment, Nicaragua, child labor, human capital accumulation, field experiment

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Obesity and Food away from Home: What Drives the Socioeconomic Gradient in Excess Body Weight?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9066
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Nov 2019
Christoph Strupat, Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran, Laura Moritz, Mario Negre Rossignoli and Renos Vakis
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE), World Bank, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) - German Development Institute (DIE) and World Bank Group, Kenya
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End: Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children

NBER Working Paper No. w22871
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Karen Macours and Renos Vakis
Paris School of Economics (PSE) and World Bank Group, Kenya
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