Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Torsten Figueiredo Walter is an Economics PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is affiliated with the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Program at STICERD. His fields of research are Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Organisational Economics.
Content by Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Project Report
State management of education systems and educational performance: Evidence from a management survey at district education offices in Zambia
12 Jun 2019 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Project Report
The allocation of teachers across public primary schools in Zambia
12 Jun 2019 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Project Report
The spatial distribution of health services in Zambia
26 Sep 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Policy Brief
Onde estão os professores? Distribuição dos professores em escolas públicas em Moçambique
Desde o aperto fiscal após a suspensão do apoio ao orçamento geral do Estado pelos principais doadores bilaterais, em 2016, aumentou a preocupação do governo em relação ao uso eficiente dos recursos no sector da educação; Os professores são um elemento-chave no sistema de ensino e o maior componente na estrutura de custos do sector de educação pública em...
25 Sep 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Policy Brief
Where are the teachers? The distribution of teachers across public primary schools in Mozambique
Following the suspension of general budget support by the main bilateral donors in 2016, consequent fiscal tightening has seen the efficient use of resources in the education sector becoming a priority of the Mozambican government. Teachers are the largest cost component in the public education sector in Mozambique, with their compensation accounting for more than...
25 Sep 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Project Report
Missing links and mismatches: Data challenges with policy implications
21 Aug 2018 | Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Kelsey Jack
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Publication - Miscellaneous
Presentation: The allocation of teachers across public schools in Zambia
20 Aug 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Miscellaneous
Presentation: The distribution of health services in Zambia
20 Aug 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Project
The spatial distribution of health services in Zambia
While a lack of resources has been identified as a major issue in the health sector in many developing countries, little is known about misallocation of health resources within countries as a hindrance to health care provision. Existing evidence on the distribution of health workers across regions in African countries points towards large spatial imbalances and some have...
20 Aug 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Policy Brief
Where are the teachers? Staffing inequities across Zambian public schools
This brief analyses the distribution of teachers across public schools in Zambia and looks at the administrative challenges linked to teacher allocation. The researcher finds large staffing inequities across public schools. While 10% of public primary school pupils attend schools with pupil-teacher ratios (PTRs) below 30 pupils per teacher, 16% of pupils –...
25 Jun 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Policy Brief
Integrating administrative databases to improve resource allocation in the Zambian health sector: An application to the spatial distribution of health workers
The Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) and its partners collect a wide variety of data on health services. However, this information is generally recorded in separate, unlinked datasets that can only be used in isolation from each other. This brief illustrates how the integration of administrative datasets into a single health database can support efficient resource...
25 Jun 2018 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Project
(Mis)allocation of teachers and state capacity
Cross-country differences in educational attainment are large. Despite a massive expansion of primary schooling in developing countries in the last decades, a substantial share of the population in low-income countries still does not complete primary education. Since teachers are a key input into the education process and teacher compensation constitutes a major part of...
30 Nov 2017 | Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Publication - Project Report
Evaluating Zambia's 2013 salary reform
27 Mar 2017 | Oriana Bandiera, Nava Ashraf, Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Project
Productivity in the civil service: Understanding the impact of payroll reform on worker performance
The provision of public services depends critically on the skills and motivation of the agents tasked with providing them. And yet, civil servant underperformance plagues many countries, with cross-national studies reporting average daily absenteeism rates among public health workers and teachers of 19 and 35 percent, respectively. This project covers the initial steps...
19 Oct 2016 | Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Torsten Figueiredo Walter
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Project
Pilot study on productivity in the civil service: Understanding the impact of compensation as a driver of worker performance
While the effect of performance related incentives on productivity has been widely addressed in the literature (e.g. Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2005), (2007), (2009); Ashraf, Bandiera, and Jack (2014); Hearer (2004); Duflo, Hanna, and Ryan, (2012); Lazear (2000); Fryer (2011); Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011)), the impact of an exogenous increase in wages in the...
14 Mar 2016 | Oriana Bandiera, Nava Ashraf, Torsten Figueiredo Walter