Rema Hanna

Biography

Research

• Monitoring teachers in India and linking their salaries to attendance was effective in decreasing teacher absenteeism by 21%, which in turn increased students' test scores by 0.17 standard deviations, suggesting that teachers' labour supply in developing countries may respond strongly to financial incentives, which use households' assets to predict consumption and assess, community-based targeting methods, wherein the community identify poor households, and a hybrid of PMT and community-based methods are found to be only slightly less effective in targeting Indonesian households living in absolute poverty, with community-based methods resulting in higher satisfaction, possibly because of the application of community-specific definitions of poverty ;
• Pollution's impact on health may negatively affect labour supply, as the closure of a large refinery in Mexico City reduced sulfur dioxide pollution in surrounding neighbourhoods by 19.7%, which in turn increased weekly work hours by 3.5%.