Resultados de búsqueda - "causality"

SPIA's approach to impact assessment for CGIAR por CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment

“…The CGIAR portfolio spans a wide spectrum of research, development, and policy engagement activities, involving a multitude of disciplines and approaches, and a large set of causal pathways, and possible outcomes. The commonality across this wide portfolio is that CGIAR aims to provide public goods, which potentially benefit many populations in different parts of the world. …”
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A Tentative Theory of Change to Evaluate Jurisdictional Approaches to Reduced Deforestation por Chervier, C., Piketty, M-G., Reed, J.

“…More specifically, we suggest that current evaluation practices of JA would be strengthened if they were based on a theory of change clarifying the causal linkages between the interventions associated with a given JA and their effects. …”
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Vegetation changes attributable to refugees in Africa coincide with agricultural deforestation por Maystadt, Jean-François, Mueller, Valerie, Van Den Hoek, Jamon, van Weezel, Stijn

“…We examine whether narratives of refugee-driven landscape change are empirically generalizable to continental Africa, which fosters 34% of all refugees. Estimates of the causal effects of the number of refugees—located in 493 camps distributed across 49 African countries—on vegetation from 2000 to 2016 are provided. …”
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Framing flexible spending accounts: A large‐scale field experiment on communicating the return on medical savings accounts por Leight, Jessica, Wilson, Nicholas

“…Despite their increasing popularity as an employee benefit, however, there is little causal evidence around individual demand for these accounts. …”
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Market access, price policy and diversification in Indian agriculture por Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap Singh, Roy, Devesh, Hazrana, Jaweriah

“…This paper provides empirical evidence of a causal relationship between the access to markets and the crop partial policies on the pattern of specialization or diversification in Indian agriculture. …”
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Community voices on climate, peace and security: Zambia por Medina, Leonardo, Caroli, Giulia, Tarusarira, Joram, Sax, Niklas, Basel, Ashleigh, Maviza, Gracsious, Pacillo, Grazia, Bonatti, Michelle

“…Based on the qualitative analysis of data gathered through focus group discussions with community members in each locations, we identified four main causal pathways through which the effects of climate change compound to processes of conflict and instability. …”
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Emigration and rising wages in Myanmar: Evidence from Mon State por Filipski, Mateusz J., Lee, Hak Lim, Hein, Aung, Nischan, Ulrike

“…We use measures of past migration in an instrumental variables framework to further show that this relationship is likely causal. Rapidly rising wages in Myanmar bring both opportunities and challenges, and carry deep consequences for the development trajectory of the country.…”
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The long-term impact of development interventions in rural Bangladesh por Davis, Peter

“…The aim of this component of the project was to complement the quantitative analysis of the long-term impact of development interventions with qualitative analysis, drawing from participants' perspectives and exploring the causal mechanisms observed to have contributed to improvement or decline in people's life circumstances.…”
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Crowding in private quality: The equilibrium effects of public spending in education por Andrabi, Tahir, Bau, Natalie, Das, Jishnu, Karachiwalla, Naureen, Khwaja, Asim Ijaz

“…The program was randomized at the village level, allowing us to estimate its causal impact on the market. Four years after the start of the program, test scores were 0.2 standard deviations higher in public schools. …”
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Community voices on climate, peace, and security: Mindanao, Philippines por Medina, Leonardo, Savelli, Adam, Souza de Matos, Vanessa, Kizilkaya, Setenay, Torres, Mark Anthony, Arcede, Jayrold, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Sabugaa, Michael, Hellin, Jon, Sieber, Stefan, Bonatti, Michelle, Pacillo, Grazia

“…Based on the qualitative analysis of data gathered through focus group discussions with community members in each location, we identified four causal pathways through which the effects of climate change undermine institutional and community capacities for sustainable peacebuilding in Mindanao’s post-conflict setting. …”
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Economic impacts of land degradation: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire por Angaman, Kadio Valere, Mirzabaev, Alisher, Niang, Birahim Bouna

“…However, there is little knowledge available quantifying the economic losses in agriculture due to land degradation within a methodologically rigorous causal framework. Therefore, we evaluate the net farming income reduction caused by land degradation in the Trays ecosystem in Cote d'Ivoire using an instrumental variable two‐stage least square‐IV method and primary household surveys and soil sampling data collected from 780 farmers in this study area. …”
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Impacts of city life on nutrition: Evidence From resettlement lotteries in China por Leng, Ganxiao, Qiu, Huanguang, Filipski, Mateusz J.

“…Lottery-determined timing of resettlement enables causal inference. We base our empirics on a 3-year panel and a range of difference-in-differences and matching methodologies. …”
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Cash transfers, gender norms, and women’s control over decision-making in Egypt por El-Enbaby, Hoda, Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra

“…We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of Egypt’s national cash transfer program on women’s control over household decision-making. …”
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Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems por Euler, Michael A., Cheesman, Stephanie, Farah Deba Keya, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago, Mizanur Rahman, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…While the associations in this study should not be interpreted as causal relationships, we conclude that the gendered outcomes of the adoption of mechanized fodder choppers can be complex. …”
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Whose forest is this, anyway?: criteria and indicators on access to resources por Colfer, C.J.P., Salim, A., Tiane, A.M., Tchikangwa, B., Sardjono, M.A., Prabhu, Ravi

“…It concludes with earliest tentative findings relating to the possible causal links between sustainable forest management on the one hand, and one element in SIAR (sharing of forest benefits), on the other. …”
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Compensation of irrigation professionals: a comparative study of the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Pakistan por Kikuchi, M, Merrey, Douglas J., Dassenaike, L.

“…The crudeness of the data and the analysis is such that no causal relationship is established, but there is a plausible case that compensation of irrigation professionals needs to be increased as part of a program to increase irrigation agency performance in developing countries.…”
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Etiología del "amachamiento" del frijol común en Costa Rica por Morales, Francisco José, Araya Fernández, CM, Hernández, J.C., Arroyave, José A., Cuervo Ibáñez, Maritza, Velasco, Ana Cecilia, Castaño J., Mauricio

“…This virus had already been reported in Costa Rica in 1972, as the causal agent of bean "yellow stipple", but had not been associated with the symptoms of "amachamiento". …”
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Understanding sustainable diets: a descriptive analysis of the determinants and processes that influence diets and their impact on health, food security, and environmental sustaina... por Johnston, J.L., Fanzo, J.C., Cogill, Bruce

“…This study examines the determinants of sustainable diets, offers a descriptive analysis of these areas, and presents a causal model and framework from which to build. The major determinants of sustainable diets fall into 5 categories: 1) agriculture, 2) health, 3) sociocultural, 4) environmental, and 5) socioeconomic. …”
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Inactivation of pathogenic organisms of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) by heat and other treatments por Lozano, J.C.

“…Botryodiplodia sp., Glomerella sp. and the causal agent of the superelongation disease (a lower ascomycete) were controlled by hot water or microwave treatments only in the case of early infection.UV light exposure did not control these pathogens. …”
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Degeneration of aflatoxin gene clusters in Aspergillus flavus from Africa and North America por Adhikari, B.N., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Cotty, P.J.

“…Aspergillus flavus is the most common causal agent of aflatoxin contamination of food and feed. …”
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