Renos Vakis

World Bank Group, Kenya

1818 H Street NW

Washington, DC 20433

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

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1,712

SSRN CITATIONS

15

CROSSREF CITATIONS

1

Scholarly Papers (8)

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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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12107
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 May 2019
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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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
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
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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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
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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Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10501
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Jan 2017
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
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 Jun 2023
Karen Macours and Renos Vakis
Paris School of Economics (PSE) and World Bank Group, Kenya
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