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How much should we trust differences-in-differences estimates?

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M Bertrand, E Duflo… - 2002 - nber.org
Most Difference-in-Difference (DD) papers rely on many years of data and focus on serially
correlated outcomes. Yet almost all these papers ignore the bias in the estimated standard
errors that serial correlation introduce4s. This is especially troubling because the ...
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Schooling and labor market consequences of school construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an unusual policy experiment

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E Duflo - 2000 - nber.org
Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian Government constructed over 61,000 primary
schools throughout the country. This is one of the largest school construction programs on
record. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and wages by combining ...
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Inequality and growth: What can the data say?

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AV Banerjee… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-
country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-
shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are ...
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Grandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa

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E Duflo - 2000 - nber.org
This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected
by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South
African social pension program were expanded for the black population. In 1993, the ...
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Women as policy makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in India

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R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo - Econometrica, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's
leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990's, one third of Village Council head
positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only ...
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The role of information and social interactions in retirement plan decisions: Evidence from a randomized experiment

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E Duflo… - 2002 - nber.org
This paper analyzes a randomized experiment to shed light on the role of information and
social interactions in employees' decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account (TDA)
retirement plan within a large university. The experiment encouraged a random sample of ...
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[HTML] The economic lives of the poor

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AV Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In what turned out to be a rhetorical master-move, the 1990 World Development Report from
the World Bank defined the “extremely poor” people of the world as those who are currently
living on no more than $1 per day per person, measured at the 1985 purchasing power ...
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Growth theory through the lens of development economics

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AV Banerjee… - Handbook of economic growth, 2005 - Elsevier
Abstract Growth theory has traditionally assumed the existence of an aggregate production
function, whose existence and properties are closely tied to the assumption of optimal
resource allocation within each economy. We show extensive evidence, culled from the ...
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Reputation effects and the limits of contracting: A study of the Indian software industry

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AV Banerjee… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper examines evidence of the role that reputation plays in determining
contractual outcomes. We conduct an empirical analysis of the Indian customized software
industry, using a data set we collected containing detailed information on 230 projects ...
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Using randomization in development economics research: A toolkit

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E Duflo, R Glennerster… - Handbook of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners
wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the
rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution ...
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Participation and investment decisions in a retirement plan: The influence of colleagues' choices

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E Duflo… - Journal of Public Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings
decisions. We use individual data from employees of a large university to study whether
individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university, ...
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Do firms want to borrow more? Testing credit constraints using a directed lending program

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A Banerjee… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper uses variation in access to a targeted lending program to estimate
whether firms are credit constrained. The basic idea is that while both constrained and
unconstrained firms may be willing to absorb all the directed credit that they can get ( ...
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Intrahousehold resource allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social norms, separate accounts and consumption choices

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E Duflo… - 2004 - nber.org
We study resource allocation within households in C “te d'Ivoire. In C “te d'Ivoire, as in much
of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by
gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to ...
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Monitoring works: Getting teachers to come to school

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E Duflo… - 2005 - nber.org
In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This
paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce
teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and ...
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Use of randomization in the evaluation of development effectiveness

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E Duflo… - Evaluating Development Effectiveness, 2005 - books.google.com
Historically, prospective randomized evaluations of development programs have constituted
a tiny fraction of all development evaluations. In this paper we argue that there is scope for
considerably expanding their use, although they must necessarily remain a small fraction ...
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[PDF] The Miracle of Microfinance?: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

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AV Banerjee, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - 2009 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
Abstract Microcredit has spread extremely rapidly since its beginnings in the late 1970s, but
whether and how much it helps the poor is the subject of intense debate. This paper reports
on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing microcredit in a new market. ...
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Child health and household resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension program

E Duflo - The American Economic Review, 2000 - JSTOR
This paper presents nonparametric evidence on the effects of the expansion of the Old Age
Pension program in South Africa on child health. Did this increase in household resources
improve child health and nutrition? Does the gender of the recipient of the pension affect ...
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Saving incentives for low-and middle-income families: evidence from a field experiment with H&R Block

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E Duflo, W Gale, J Liebman, P Orszag… - 2005 - nber.org
This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R
Block, offering matching incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation. About
14,000 H&R Block clients, across 60 offices in predominantly low-and middle-income ...
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[HTML] Addressing absence

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A Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Absent providers are a major problem both for public health facilities and primary schools in
many developing countries. The paper by Chaudhury and others in this issue provides new
and systematic evidence on the rates of absenteeism based on surveys of absence rates ...
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[HTML] HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan

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A Banerjee, A Deaton… - The American economic review, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What are the determinants of health and of well-being? Income and wealth are clearly part of
the story, but does access to health care have a large independent effect, as the advocates
of more investment in health care, such as the World Health Organization's Commission ...
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Powerful women: Does exposure reduce bias?

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LA Beaman, R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo, R Pande… - 2008 - nber.org
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to
investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female
leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male ...
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Peer effects, teacher incentives, and the impact of tracking: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - 2008 - nber.org
To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong
students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers
to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly ...
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The experimental approach to development economics

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AV Banerjee… - 2008 - nber.org
Randomized experiments have become a popular tool in development economics research,
and have been the subject of a number of criticisms. This paper reviews the recent literature,
and discusses the strengths and limitations of this approach in theory and in practice. We ...
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The impact of education on fertility and child mortality: Do fathers really matter less than mothers?

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L Breierova… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper takes advantage of a massive school construction program that took place in
Indonesia between 1973 and 1978 to estimate the effect of education on fertility and child
mortality. Time and region varying exposure to the school construction program generates ...
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[HTML] What is middle class about the middle classes around the world?

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AV Banerjee… - The journal of economic perspectives: a …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We expect a lot from the middle classes. Jim Frederick, writing in Time magazine in 2002,
stated:“China's burgeoning middle class holds the key to the future of the country.” In a more
academic vein, Easterly (2001) concludes, based on a comparison of a large number of ...
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Nudging farmers to use fertilizer: theory and experimental evidence from Kenya

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E Duflo, M Kremer… - 2009 - nber.org
While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to
raising agricultural productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive,
environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in politicized, inefficient distribution of ...
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[PDF] Scaling up and evaluation

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E Duflo - Annual World Bank Conference on Development …, 2004 - expandnet.net
Scaling up and evaluation are often presented as conflicting objectives, and for most
international development agencies,“going to scale” has to be given priority. The United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), for example, lists as its first priority for HIV/AIDS ...
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Health care delivery in rural Rajasthan

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A Banerjee, A Deaton… - Economic and Political Weekly, 2004 - JSTOR
This paper reports on a survey conducted in rural Udaipur to gauge the delivery of health
care and the impact it has on the health status of the largely poor population of the region.
The study shows that the quality of public service is extremely low and that unqualified ...
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Poor but rational

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E Duflo - Understanding poverty, 2006 - books.google.com
Modern development economics emerged with the realization that poverty changes the set
of options available to individuals. Poverty thus affects behavior, even if the decision maker
is “neoclassical”: unboundedly rational, forward-looking, and internally consistent. The ...
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Field experiments in development economics

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E Duflo - Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and …, 2006 - books.google.com
Page 323. CHAPTER 13 Field Experiments in Development Economics∗ Esther
Duflo Abstract There is a long tradition in development economics of collecting original
data to test specific hypotheses. Over the last 10 years, this ...
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How high are rates of return to fertilizer? Evidence from field experiments in Kenya

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E Duflo, M Kremer… - The American Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
The idea that peasant farmers are rational profitmaximizers has been a staple of develop?
ment economics since Theodore Schultz (1964). It has also been influential in shaping
policy. For example, agricultural experts have stressed the importance of fertilizer use in ...
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Impact of reservation in Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a nationwide randomised experiment

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R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo - Economic and Political Weekly, 2004 - JSTOR
A necessary condition for the efficacy of the reservation policy in panchayati institutions is
that elected representatives have independent power and autonomy over and above not
only the direct control of the villagers, but also above the control of the bureaucracy, party ...
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Pitfalls of participatory programs: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

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A Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - 2008 - nber.org
Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a
key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on
universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children ...
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[PDF] Gender equality in development

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E Duflo - BREAD Policy Paper, 2005 - unibocconi.eu
► The starkest manifestation of gender inequality is the “missing women” phenomenon (Amartya
Sen): Perhaps 60 to 100 million missing women, some not born, some dying of cumulative
neglect. ► Women lack behind men in many domains: ► Education ► Labor market ...
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Long run health impacts of income shocks: Wine and phylloxera in 19th century France

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A Banerjee, E Duflo, G Postel-Vinay… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large
income shock experienced in early childhood. Phylloxera, an insect that attacks the roots of
grape vines, destroyed 40% of French vineyards between 1863 and 1890, causing major ...
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[PDF] Remedying Education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India

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A Banerjee, S Cole, E Duflo… - … , MA. Available on line at http: …, 2004 - cep.lse.ac.uk
Abstract This paper presents the results of two overlapping two-year randomized
evaluations conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to
improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education program hires ...
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Banking Reform in lndia

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S Cole… - India Policy Forum, 2004 - books.google.com
Background India has a long history of both public and private banking. Modern banking in
India began in the eighteenth century, with the founding of the English Agency House in
Calcutta and Bombay. In the first half of the nineteenth century, three presidency banks ...
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[PDF] Understanding technology adoption: Fertilizer in Western Kenya, preliminary results from field experiments

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E Duflo, M Kremer… - … , Massachusetts Institute of …, 2004 - sticerd.lse.ac.uk
In rural Western Kenya, the Ministry of Agriculture recommends the use of hybrid seeds and
fertilizer to increase maize yields. This recommendation is based on evidence from
experimental farms that fertilizer substantially increases yield. In 2000, however, ...
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[PDF] Bank financing in India

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A Banerjee, S Cole… - Photocopy. Department of Economics …, 2003 - people.hbs.edu
The Indian banking sector has been remarkably successful in some respects. Its immense
size and enormous penetration in rural areas are exemplary among developing countries,
as is its solid reputation for stability among depositors. The penetration in rural areas has ...
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[BOOK] Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women: Leaders in India

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E Duflo… - 2004 - povertyactionlab.org
Abstract This paper studies the impact of reservation for women on the performance of policy
makers and on voters' perceptions of this performance. Since the mid 1990's, one third of
Village Council head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In ...
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The medium run effects of educational expansion: evidence from a large school construction program in Indonesia

E Duflo - Journal of Development Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper studies the medium run consequences of an increase in the rate of accumulation
of human capital in a developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government
built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction program led to an increase in ...
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[BOOK] Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty

E Duflo… - 2011 - books.google.com
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are
dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that
are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst. Abhijit Banerjee ...
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[PDF] Peer effects, pupil-teacher ratios, and teacher incentives: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - Unpublished manuscript, 2007 - isites.harvard.edu
This paper takes advantage of a randomized evaluation of a Kenyan program which
provided school committees with funds to hire teachers locally on short term contracts in
order to shed light on the impact of peers, pupil-teacher ratios, teacher incentive systems, ...
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Why Political Reservations?

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E Duflo - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Many countries are amending their political systems to set aside positions to
groups, such as women and racial or religious minorities, that are perceived as being
disadvantaged. Using evidence from India, this article assesses the case for these ...
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Marry for what: caste and mate selection in modern India

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A Banerjee, E Duflo, M Ghatak… - 2009 - nber.org
This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses ...
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The (mis) allocation of capital

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AV Banerjee, E Duflo… - Journal of the European …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Is capital allocated so that its marginal product is equated to the market interest
rate? Is the marginal product of capital equalized across its alternative uses? This paper
attempts to answer both of these questions using data from India, and concludes that both ...
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[PDF] Additional resources versus organizational changes in education: Experimental evidence from Kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - … , Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( …, 2009 - Citeseer
Abstract Several studies have found that resources alone have limited impact on the quality
of education in developing countries, while others have found that changes in pedagogy
and incentives can have significant and large impacts. This paper compares increases in ...
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[CITATION] Grandmothers and grandaughters: the effects of old age pension on child health in South Africa

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E Duflo - 2000 - dspace.mit.edu
Abstract The idea that redistribution can be efficiency-enhancing if it has positive effects on
hu-man capital accumulation is often invoked to support redistribution poUcies in
developing countries. Yet there is little evidence on whether income transfers improve ...
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[HTML] Indoor air pollution, health and economic well-being

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E Duflo, M Greenstone… - SAPI EN. S. Surveys and …, 2008 - sapiens.revues.org
Indoor air pollution (IAP) caused by solid fuel use and/or traditional cooking stoves is a
global health threat, particularly for women and young children. The WHO World Health
Report 2002 estimates that IAP is responsible for 2.7% of the loss of disability adjusted life ...
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[PDF] Nudging farmers to use fertilizer: evidence from Kenya

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E Duflo, M Kremer… - NBER Working Paper, 2009 - econ.arizona.edu
* The authors are respectively from MIT (Department of Economics and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty
Action Lab); Harvard, Brookings, CGD, J-PAL, and NBER; and UC Santa Cruz and J-PAL. We
thank John Ikoluot, Edward Masinde, Chris Namulundu, Evite Ochiel, Andrew Wabwire, ...
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Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

AV Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo… - American Economic …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly
seen as a key to improving their quality. We conducted a randomized evaluation of three
interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation to India: providing information on ...
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Implications of pension plan features, information, and social interactions for retirement saving decisions

E Duflo… - Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons …, 2004 - books.google.com
There is growing concern in many nations about low levels of retirement saving. For most
US families, employer pensions are the main source of cash income during retirement, over
and above Social Security benefits (Poterba, Venti, and Wise, 1996). Yet, in the last 25 ...
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Giving credit where it is due

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AV Banerjee… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In the last few years, field experiments have emerged as an attractive new tool in
the effort to elaborate our understanding of economic issues relevant to poor countries and
poor people. By enabling the researcher to precisely control the variation in the data, field ...
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Putting a Band‐Aid on a corpse: Incentives for nurses in the Indian public health care system

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AV Banerjee, E Duflo… - Journal of the European …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by
providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This
artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a ...
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[PDF] The miracle of microfinance

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A Banerjee, E Duflo… - Evidence from a …, 2009 - centre-for-microfinance.com
Abstract Microcredit has spread extremely rapidly since its beginnings in the late 1970s, but
whether and how much it helps the poor is the subject of intense debate. This paper reports
on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing microcredit in a new market. ...
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Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India

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A Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo, R Glennerster… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: There is a growing belief in development policy circles that participation by local
communities in basic service delivery can promote development outcomes. A central plank
of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the participation of ...
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[CITATION] Do firms want to borrow more?

AV Banerjee… - 2004 - Centre for Economic Policy …
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[PDF] Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School

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E Duflo, R Hanna… - American Economic Review, 2010 - hss.caltech.edu
Abstract We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring
and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in rural India. In
treatment schools, teachers' attendance was monitored daily using cameras, and their ...
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[BOOK] Women's leadership and policy decisions: Evidence from a nationwide randomized experiment in India

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R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo… - 2001 - aida.wss.yale.edu
Abstract This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of
women's leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of
Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in ...
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[PDF] Computer-assisted learning: Evidence from a randomized experiment

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L Linden, A Banerjee… - Poverty Action Lab Paper, 2003 - pratham.org
Abstract This note presents the results obtained after the first year of a two-year randomized
evaluation of a computer assisted learning (CAL) program in Vadodara, India. The CAL
program, implemented by a NGO, took advantage of the donation of four computers to ...
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Peer effects, teacher incentives, and the impact of tracking: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - The American Economic …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help
strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows
teachers to better tailor their instruction level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely ...
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[CITATION] Intrahousehold resource allocation in Cote d

E Duflo… - Ivoire: Social norms, separate accounts and …, 2003
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The medium run effects of educational expansion: Evidence from a large school construction program in Indonesia

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E Duflo - 2002 - nber.org
This paper studies the medium run consequences of an increase in the rate of accumulation
of human capital in a developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government
built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction program led to an increase in ...
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[CITATION] Why don't farmers use fertilizer: Evidence from Field Experiments in Western Kenya

E Duflo, M Kremer… - Massachusetts Institute of Technology & MIT …, 2006
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[CITATION] Understanding technology adoption: Fertilizer in Western Kenya. Evidence from field experiments

E Duflo, M Kremer… - Unpublished Manuscript, 2006
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[PDF] Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

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R Chattopadhyay, E Duflo - NBER Working Paper, 2003 - sais-jhu.edu
Abstract This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of
women's leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid 1990's, one third of Village Council
head positions in India have been randomly reserved for a woman: In these councils only ...
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Industrial restructuring in Russia: early reactions fo firms to the shock of liberalization1

E Duflo, C Senik‐Leygonie - Economics of Transition, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper looks at the reaction of Russian firsm to the shock of liberalization. Firms
are exposed to two kinds of shocks. A supply affects their profitability. A demand shock
reflects the new expression of consumers and the opening of the country to foreign ...
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[CITATION] jHow much should be trust difference# in# difference estimates

M Bertrand, E Duflo… - kQuarterly Journal of Economics, 2004
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[CITATION] Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

R Chattopadhay… - Econometrica, 2004
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[PDF] Impact of microcredit in rural areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

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B Crépon, F Devoto, E Duflo… - Massachusetts Institute of …, 2011 - givewell.org
Abstract Microcredit has rapidly expanded in the past years, providing access to financial
services to a large population previously excluded from the financial system. However,
whether it helps the poor has been a subject of intense debate on which, until very ...
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Cooking stoves, indoor air pollution and respiratory health in rural Orissa

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E Duflo, M Greenstone… - Economic and Political Weekly, 2008 - JSTOR
Indoor air pollution emitted from traditional fuels and cooking stoves is a potentially large
health threat in rural regions. This paper reports the results of a survey of tradftional stove
ownership and health among 2,400 households in rural Orissa. We find a very high ...
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

CR Udry… - Yale School of Management Working Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
In Cote d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm different crops on separate
plots. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of rainfall shocks.
We find that conditional on overall household expenditure, the composition of expenditure ...
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[PDF] Efficiency and rent seeking in local government: Evidence from randomized policy experiments in India

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E Duflo, G Fischer… - Cambridge, MA: The …, 2005 - povertyactionlab.org
One of the traditional trade-offs about whether local public good provision should be
decentralized is between efficiency and rent seeking: decentralized governments may be
better at eliciting people's preferences than a centralized government, but they may have ...
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[PDF] Evaluating the Impact of Development Aid Programmes: The Role of Randomised Evaluations

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E Duflo - Development Aid: Why and How? Towards strategies …, 2005 - afd.fr
The benefits of evaluating the impact of development programmes, and of knowing which
programmes work, extend far beyond any programme or agency. Credible impact
evaluations are global public goods in the sense that they can offer reliable guidance to ...
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[CITATION] A reassessment of the relationship between inequality and growth: Comment

A Banerjee… - Manuscript, MIT, 2000
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Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates

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AP Zwane, J Zinman, E Van Dusen… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed?
In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be
surveyed about health and/or household finances and then measured subsequent use of ...
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[CITATION] Understanding fertilizer adoption: evidence from field experiments

E Duflo, M Kremer… - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mimeo), 2006
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[CITATION] Education and fertility: Experimental evidence from Kenya

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[PDF] What do banks (not) do?

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A Banerjee… - Economic and Political Weekly, 2004 - econ.cufe.edu.cn
In many ways the banking system in India, including the regulatory apparatus, remains a
product of the planning years. It seems to be a system that was conceivedfor a world where
people were expected to do what they were told, and things happened as they were ...
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[CITATION] Bank Finance in India

AV Banerjee… - 2003 - MIMEO
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[PDF] Randomized Evaluations of Interventions in Social Service Delivery

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E Duflo, R Glennerster… - Development Outreach, 2004 - stuff.mit.edu
Inexpensive health programs, reducing the cost of school to households, or providing meals
can substantially increase school participation. Given the existing governance problems in
many developing countries, simply providing more resources may have a limited impact ...
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[CITATION] Evaluating the effect of birth-spacing on child mortality

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[PDF] Education, hiv and early fertility: Experimental evidence from kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - UCLA manuscript, 2011 - stanford.edu
Abstract We provide experimental evidence on the relationships between education,
HIV/AIDS education, risky behavior and early fertility in Kenya. We exploit randomly
assigned variation in the cost of schooling and in exposure to the national HIV/AIDS ...
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Poor Economics

A Banerjee, E Duflo… - Public Affairs, New …, 2011 - wwwqa2.goldmansachs.com
Written by the founders of MIT's Poverty Action Laboratory, Poor Economics is a
transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor. While billions of government
dollars, and thousands of organisations are dedicated to helping the world's poor, much of ...
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Mandated Empowerment

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AV Banerjee… - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The current trend in antipoverty policy emphasizes mandated empowerment: the poor are
being handed the responsibility for making things better for themselves, largely without
being asked whether this is what they want. Beneficiary control is now being built into ...
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[PDF] Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

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AV Banerjee… - 2010 - nber.org
Abstract This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to
investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP)
and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure ...
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SAVINGS INCENTIVES FOR LOW‐AND MODERATE‐INCOME FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES: WHY IS THE SAVER'S CREDIT NOT MORE EFFECTIVE?

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E Duflo, W Gale, J Liebman… - Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper uses data from the largest tax preparer in the United States to estimate
the impact of the “saver's credit,” a US federal program providing financial incentives to
encourage retirement savings, on the decision to contribute to an IRA. It finds significant, ...
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Can Information Campaigns Raise Awareness and Local Participation in Primary Education?

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A Banerjee, R Banerji, E Duflo… - Economic and Political …, 2007 - JSTOR
A central plank of public policy for improving primary education services in India is the
participation of village education committees, consisting of village government leaders,
parents, and teachers. This paper reports the findings from a survey in a rural district in ...
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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

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F Devoto, E Duflo, P Dupas, W Pariente… - 2011 - nber.org
We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of
such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among
homeowners without a private connection to the city's water grid, a random subset was ...
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[PDF] Political reservation and substantive representation: Evidence from Indian village councils

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L Beaman, E Duflo, R Pande… - India Policy Forum, 2010 - hks.harvard.edu
Female presence in India's state and national legislatures hovers at ten percent. Concerns
that this limits the political voice available to women has led to the introduction and
subsequent passage of a Reservation Bill in the Upper house of the Indian Parliament ( ...
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[CITATION] Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

D Esther, P Dupas… - American Economic Review, 2008
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[CITATION] Banking Reform in India

V Banerjee Abhijit, S Cole… - Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of …, 2004
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The diffusion of microfinance

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A Banerjee, AG Chandrasekhar, E Duflo… - 2012 - nber.org
We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks.
We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India
before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual ...
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[PDF] Improving the Quality of Education in India: Evidence from Three Randomized Experiments

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A Banerjee, S Cole, E Duflo… - Massachusetts Institute of …, 2003 - cepr.org.uk
Abstract This paper presents the results of a two-year randomized evaluation of a large
scale remedial education program, conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, and the
preliminary results of a randomized evaluation of a computer assisted learning program in ...
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On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China

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A Banerjee, E Duflo… - 2012 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of
the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to ...
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[PDF] Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

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E Duflo, P Dupas… - For a summary of this evaluation, see: …, 2010 - stanford.edu
To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong
students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers
to better tailor their instruction level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to ...
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[CITATION] Growth Theory through the Lens of Economic Development

A Banerjee… - Handbook of Development Economics, 2005
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[CITATION] How high are rates of return to fertilizer

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