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Overview

Deon Filmer is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Education and related subfields such as Safety Research, Nutrition and Dietetics, Accounting, and Economics and Econometrics. Their work spans topics including Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, School Choice and Performance, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Early Childhood Education and Development, Parental Involvement in Education, Financial Literacy, Pension and Retirement Analysis, and Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality.

Their recent publications reflect a wide range of interests and empirical investigations. Notable papers include:

  • "Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Ineligible Children" (2021), published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "Teacher pay in Africa: Evidence from 15 countries" (2022), published in World Development
  • "Heterogenous teacher effects of two incentive schemes: Evidence from a low-income country" (2022), in Journal of Development Economics
  • "Teacher Performance-Based Incentives and Learning Inequality" (2023), appearing in The Journal of Human Resources
  • "How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Review of the Evidence Using a Unified Metric" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, Shwetlena Sabarwal, David K. Evans, and Frances Rogers, indicating ongoing collaborations within the development economics and education research communities.

Filmer's work has been disseminated in various scholarly venues, with multiple publications in AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, SSRN Electronic Journal, Harvard Dataverse, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and World Development. These outlets reflect a focus on rigorous empirical research and policy-relevant findings.

Their book contributions, primarily published by World Bank eBooks, include titles such as "How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Comparison of 150 Interventions using the New Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling Metric" (2020), "Are Teachers in Africa Poorly Paid?: Evidence from 15 Countries" (2020), and "Long-Lived Consequences of Rapid Scale-Up? The Case of Free Primary Education in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries" (2023). These books cover topics of education efficiency, teacher remuneration, and the impacts of education policies across low-income contexts.

Overall, Deon Filmer's scholarly contributions emphasize educational outcomes, teacher incentives, nutrition impacts, and the wider socioeconomic factors influencing child welfare and learning across developing regions.

Best Publications

  • Estimating Wealth Effects Without Expenditure Data—Or Tears: An Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India

    Deon Filmer;Lant H. Pritchett

  • Estimating Wealth Effects without Expenditure Data or Tears: With an Application to Educational Enrollments in States of India

    Deon Filmer;Lant Pritchett;Lant Pritchett

  • The effect of household wealth on educational attainment: evidence from 35 countries.

    Deon Filmer;Lant Pritchett

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people

    Lant Pritchett;Ritva Reinikka;Shantayanan Devarajan;Deon Filmer

  • The impact of public spending on health: does money matter?

    Deon Filmer;Lant Pritchett

  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Deon Filmer;Louise Fox

  • World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise

    Deon P. Filmer;F. Halsey Rogers;Samer Al-Samarrai;Maria Magdalena Bendini

  • Making Schools Work: New Evidence on Accountability Reforms

    Barbara Bruns;Deon Filmer;Harry Anthony Patrinos

  • Disability, Poverty, and Schooling in Developing Countries: Results from 14 Household Surveys

    Deon Filmer

  • Assessing Asset Indices

    Deon Filmer;Kinnon Scott

  • Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa [L’emploi des jeunes en Afrique subsaharienne - Rapport complet]

    Deon Filmer;Louise Fox

  • Weak links in the chain: A diagnosis of health policy in poor countries

    Deon Filmer;Jeffrey S. Hammer;Lant H. Pritchett

  • What education production functions really show: a positive theory of education expenditures

    Lant Pritchett;Deon Filmer

  • Poverty, AIDS, and Children's Schooling : A Targeting Dilemma

    Martha Ainsworth;Deon Filmer

  • Child mortality and public spending on health: how much does money matter?

    Deon Filmer;Lant Pritchett

  • Getting Girls into School : Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

    Deon P. Filmer;Norbert R. Schady

  • Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain

    Deon Filmer;Jeffrey Hammer;Lant Pritchett

  • Child Mortality and Public Spending on Health: How Much Does Money Matter?

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  • Inequalities in children’s schooling: AIDS, orphanhood, poverty, and gender

    Martha Ainsworth;Deon Filmer

  • A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education

    Deon Filmer;Amer Hasan;Lant Pritchett

  • Poverty, AIDS and Children's Schooling: A Targeting Dilemma. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.

    Martha Ainsworth;Deon Filmer

  • Getting Girls into School: Evidence from a Scholarship Program in Cambodia

    Norbert Schady;Deon Filmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science
Norbert Schady
Norbert Schady World Bank
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Jeffrey S. Hammer Princeton University
Jakob Svensson
Jakob Svensson Stockholm University
Dean Jolliffe
Dean Jolliffe World Bank
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
Adam Wagstaff
Adam Wagstaff World Bank

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