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To what extent does the lack of access to formal financial services impede business growth
in low-income countries? While most research on this issue has so far focused on credit
market failures, this paper focuses on the role of access to formal saving services. We ...
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 ...
J Cohen,
P Dupas… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2010 - nber.org
Abstract It is often argued that cost-sharing—charging a subsidized, positive price—for a
health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not
need the product. We explore this argument in the context of a field experiment in Kenya, ...
I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior
among teenagers in Kenya. Providing information on the relative risk of HIV infection by
partner's age led to a 28% decrease in teen pregnancy, an objective proxy for the ...
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P Dupas… - Unpublished manuscript, 2007 - isites.harvard.edu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, ...
P Dupas - 2005 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
An information campaign that provided Kenyan teenagers in randomly selected schools with
the information that HIV prevalence was much higher among adult men and their partners
than among teenage boys led to a 65% decrease in the incidence of pregnancies by adult ...
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 ...
Short-run subsidies for health products are common in poor countries. How do they affect
long-run adoption? We present a model of technology adoption in which people learn about
a technology's effectiveness by using it (or observing others using it) for some time, but ...
Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with
simple informal savings technologies can substantially increase investment in preventative
health, reduce vulnerability to health shocks, and help people meet their savings goals. ...
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 ...
P Dupas - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
An extensive literature in psychology and marketing suggests that decision-making can be
affected by frames or cues that do not add information about a product, but can be effec tive
at persuading individuals to invest in it. For example, in a recent field experiment in South ...
[CITATION] Education and fertility: Experimental evidence from Kenya
E Duflo,
P Dupas… - Manuscript preliminary and incomplete, 2010
P Dupas… - Unpublished manuscript, 2005 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract Malaria and HIV are two major threats to maternal and child health in Africa. Highly
effective prevention technologies exist, such as insecticide-treated bednets, prophylactic
drugs for malaria, and antiretroviral prophylaxis against mother-to-child transmission of ...
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 ...
J Cohen… - 2008 - nber.org
It is often argued that cost-sharing--charging a subsidized, positive price--or a health product
is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not need the
product. We explore this argument through a field experiment in Kenya, in which we ...
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 ...
[CITATION] Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
D Esther,
P Dupas… - American Economic Review, 2008
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 ...
P Dupas… - … for Population Research, UCLA, On-line …, 2010 - iis-db.stanford.edu
Abstract This paper studies whether and how households coped with the civil conflict that
immediately followed the December 2007 Presidential Election crisis in Kenya. We observe
sizeable downfalls in income, expenditure, and food consumption for a broad segment of ...
P Dupas… - American Economic Review (Papers & …, 2010 - ase.tufts.edu
Abstract This paper studies the economic and health impacts of the 2007 Kenyan
Presidential Election crisis. Over the two months of civil conflict that immediately followed the
election, we observe sizeable downfalls in income, expenditure, and consumption for a ...
P Dupas - Mimeogr., Univ. Calif. Los Angeles, 2007 - povertyactionlab.org
Abstract Income and HIV prevalence are both positively correlated with age among Kenyan
men below 40. While the first correlation is easily observable, the second is not. Thus, in the
ab& sence of information on the distribution of HIV rates by age, teenage girls may be ...
D Bhattacharya… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper concerns the problem of allocating a binary treatment among a target population
based on observed covariates. The goal is to (i) maximize the mean social welfare arising
from an eventual outcome distribution, when a budget constraint limits what fraction of the ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya.”
E Duflo,
P Dupas… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Information? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
P Dupas - NBER Working Paper, 2009
[CITATION] Bursary Targeting Strategies: Which Method (s) Most Effectively Identify the Poorest Primary School Students for Secondary School Bursaries?
K Conn, E Duflo, P Dupas, M Kremer… - 2008 - Mimeo
[CITATION] Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention. Background paper to the 2007 Development Report, The World Bank
E Duflo, P Dupas, M Kremer… - 2006 - Working paper 4024
[CITATION] Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomization Evaluation in Kenya
E Duflo, P Dupas… - … , Poverty Action Lab, Massachusetts Institute of …, 2007
[CITATION] Pricing strategies in scaling-up access to long-lasting insecticide-treated nets: Evidence from a randomized voucher experiment in Western Kenya
P Dupas - 2008 - Mimeo, UCLA
[CITATION] Peer effects, pupil-teacher ratios, and teacher incentives: evidence from a randomized evaluation in Kenya. 2007
E DUFLO, P DUPAS… - 47p.(mimeo)
[CITATION] Evaluating HIV/AIDS prevention education in primary schools: Preliminary results from a randomized controlled trial in Western Kenya
E Duflo, P Dupas, M Kremer… - Harvard University and Massachusetts …, 2003
[CITATION] Pupil-Teacher Ratios, Teacher Management, and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
E Duflo, P Dupas… - 2010 - MIT
E Duflo,
P Dupas… - 2007 - bnpp-kd.org
Abstract Rapid increases in access to education in developing countries have resulted in
large and heterogeneous classes, especially in lower grades. This study evaluates a
program which provided schools with funds to hire an additional locally-based teacher on ...
[CITATION] Pupil-Teacher Ratio, Teacher Management and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools
E Duflo, P Dupas… - 2010 - Mimeo, MIT
[CITATION] Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Term Adoption of New Health Products: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
P Dupas - 2010 - working paper
[CITATION] The Impact of Conditional In-Kind Subsidies on Preventive Health Behaviors: Evidence from Western Kenya “, Dartmouth University
P Dupas - Unpublished draft, 2005
P Dupas, S Green, A Keats… - 2012 - nber.org
Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. In this paper, we combine
experimental and survey evidence from Western Kenya to document some of the supply and
demand factors behind such low levels of financial inclusion. Our experiment had two ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya.”
E Duflo, P Dupas… - American Economic review
[CITATION] Michael Kremer, and Samuel Sinei (2006)."
…, M Pascaline Dupas - Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a …
[CITATION] Towards Universal Primary Education: Results from a Pilot Impact Study of Contract Extra Teachers in Primary Schools in Kenya
E Duflo, P Dupas… - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, …, 2004
E Duflo,
P Dupas… - 2012 - nber.org
ABSTRACT We examine a program that enabled Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in
Kenya to hire novice teachers on short-term contracts, reducing class sizes in grade one
from 82 to 44 on average. PTA teachers earned approximately one-quarter as much as ...
P Dupas, S Green, A Keats… - Forthcoming, NBER Africa …, 2011 - nber.org
Abstract The majority of people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. We combine
survey and experimental evidence from rural Kenya to document supply and demand factors
which help to explain such low levels of financial inclusion. In our experiment, we waived ...
P Dupas… - bss.sfsu.edu
After a long and closely fought election campaign, Kenya held general elections on
December 27, 2007. Despite concerns about serious flaws in the counting and tallying of
votes, Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity was announced the winner of the ...
Abstract This chapter is concerned with the issue of user fees (or user charges) for public
health services. We discuss the implications of user fees for cost% effectiveness, alloca%
tive effi ciency, equity, progressivity of public health care spending, and quality of service. ...
J Cohen… - 2008 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
Abstract It is often argued that cost-sharing—charging a subsidized, positive price—for a
health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not
need the product. We explore this argument in the context of a field experiment in Kenya, ...
D Bhattacharya… - esg.ac.uk
Abstract We consider the problem of efficiently allocating a binary treatment among a target
population based on observed characteristics when a budget constraint limits what fraction
of the population can be assigned to treatment. The goal is to maximize the population ...
V Pons, F Devoto, E Duflo,
P Dupas… - 2011 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract 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 ...
Malaria affects the health of millions of people worldwide. With an estimated 250 million
cases in 2006, malaria results in approximately 1 million deaths per year. But the impacts of
malaria extend well beyond its effects on health. Recent studies have argued that malaria ...
D Bhattacharya,
P Dupas… - 2008 - cid.bcrp.gob.pe
ABSTRACT We consider the problem of efficiently allocating a binary treatment among a
target population based on a set of discrete and continuous observed characteristics. The
goal is to maximize the population mean of an eventual outcome when a budget ...
1 Department of Economics, UCLA, 8283 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles CA 90095, and NBER
(e-mail: pdupas@ econ. ucla. edu). I am grateful to Esther Duflo and Jonathan Robinson for
helpful comments. I thank the households and shopkeepers that participated in the study, ...
J Robinson… - Info: - escholarship.org
Abstract This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether
savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses.
We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a ...
E Duflo,
P Dupas… - 2008 - cepr.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 ...
J COHEN… - Technology, 2010 - stanford.edu
Standard public finance analysis implies that health goods generating positive externalities
should be publicly funded, or even subsidized at more than 100% if the private nonmonetary
costs (such as side effects) are high. Although this analysis applies to goods whose ...
P Dupas… - internationalgrowthcentre.com
As progress is made towards universal primary school enrolment, and millions of children
around the world complete primary schooling and hope to move on to a secondary school,
an important question for policy‐makers is emerging: how quickly to expand access to ...
F Devoto, E Duflo,
P Dupas, W Parienté… - 2011 - cepr.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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