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Norbert Schady

Norbert Schady

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
48
Citations
15987
World Ranking
1490
National Ranking
901

Overview

Norbert Schady is affiliated with the Inter-American Development Bank in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of social sciences, with a focus on topics related to poverty, education, child welfare, income inequality, and public health challenges such as COVID-19.

Their scholarly work encompasses themes including:

  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Schady's research contributions are distributed across several subfields such as safety research, education, infectious diseases, sociology and political science, and modeling and simulation.

They have produced a notable number of recent papers, including:

  • "Home visiting at scale and child development" (2021), Journal of Public Economics Plus
  • "Public Policy to Tackle Covid-19: Recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean" (2020), Inter-American Development Bank eBooks
  • "COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections" (2022), Scientific Reports
  • "Learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Mexico" (2023), Economics of Education Review

In addition to journal articles, Schady has authored books published by international development organizations such as The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. These books include:

  • "Collapse and Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It" (2023), The World Bank eBooks
  • "Emerging from the Pandemic Tunnel with Faster Growth and Greater Equity: A Strategy for a New Social Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2020), Inter-American Development Bank eBooks
  • "When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country" (2022), World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks

Schady publishes regularly in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Inter-American Development Bank eBooks, Journal of Public Economics Plus, Economics of Education Review, and Nature Communications.

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Rachid Laajaj
  • Danilo Aristizábal
  • Eduardo Behrentz
  • Raquel Bernal
  • Giancarlo Buitrago

Best Publications

  • Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty

    Ariel Fiszbein;Norbert Schady;Francisco H.G. Ferreira;Margaret Grosh

  • Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

    Karen Macours;Norbert Schady;Renos Vakis

  • Cognitive Development among Young Children in Ecuador : The Roles of Wealth, Health, and Parenting

    Christina Paxson;Norbert Schady

  • Does Money Matter? The Effects of Cash Transfers on Child Development in Rural Ecuador

    Christina Paxson;Norbert Schady

  • Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

    Sarah Baird;Jed Friedman;Norbert Schady

  • Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Norbert Schady

  • Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health

    Francisco H. G. Ferreira;Norbert Schady

  • Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten

    M. Caridad Araujo;Pedro Carneiro;Yyannú Cruz-Aguayo;Norbert Schady

  • Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

    Eric V. Edmonds;Norbert Schady

  • Poverty alleviation and child labor

    Eric V. Edmonds;Norbert Schady

  • Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment

    Karen Macours;Norbert Schady;Renos Vakis

  • The Political Economy of Expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991–95

    Norbert R. Schady

  • Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution

    Santiago Levy;Norbert Schady

  • Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

    Norbert Schady;Caridad Araujo

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

    Norbert Schady;Jere R Behrman;Maria Caridad Araujo;Rodrigo Azuero

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

    Deon P. Filmer;Norbert R. Schady

  • Conditional cash transfers

    Ariel Fiszbein;Norbert R. Schady

  • Trade liberalization and industry wage structure : evidence from Brazil

    Nina Pavcnik;Andreas Blom;Pinelopi Goldberg;Norbert Schady

  • Conditional Cash Transfers : Reducing Present and Future Poverty

    Ariel Fiszbein;Norbert Schady;Francisco H.G. Ferreira;Margaret Grosh

  • Child Health and Economic Crisis in Peru

    Christina Paxson;Norbert Schady

  • Cash Transfers, Conditions, and School Enrollment in Ecuador

    Norbert Schady;Maria Caridad Araujo

  • Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: The Role of Demand and Supply of Skills

    Marco Manacorda;Carolina Sanchez-Paramo;Norbert Schady

  • Does money matter ? The effects of cash transfers on child health and development in rural Ecuador

    Christina Paxson;Norbert Schady

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

    Norbert Schady;Deon Filmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Christina Paxson
Christina Paxson Brown University
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Francisco H. G. Ferreira London School of Economics and Political Science
Nina Pavcnik
Nina Pavcnik Dartmouth College
Pedro Carneiro
Pedro Carneiro University College London
Hessel Oosterbeek
Hessel Oosterbeek University of Amsterdam
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
Philip Keefer
Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank

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