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Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development: What have we learned and what should we learn?

Date: August 2009
Authors: David McKenzie
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Randomized Experiments in Microfinance

Date: May 2009
Authors: Jonathan Bauchet, Aparna Dalal
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?

Date: January 2009
Authors: David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff, Suresh de Mel
Country: Sri Lanka
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Financial Literacy, Research Methodology
Focus: Research

How Important is Selection? Experimental Vs Non-experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

Date: December 2008
Authors: David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman
Country: Tonga
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

In pursuit of balance: randomization in practice in development field experiments

Date: October 2008
Authors: David McKenzie, Miriam Bruhn
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

The Experimental Approach to Economics

Date: September 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Adaptive Experimental Design using the Propensity Score

Date: April 2008
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hi
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Randomized Trials for Strategic Innovation in Retail Finance

Date: January 2008
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Research Methodology
Focus: Research

To Deceive or Not to Deceive: Second-guessing the Experimenter in Experimental Economics

Date: January 2008
Authors: Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan, Laura Schechter
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness

Date: January 2008
Authors: Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Cross Sectional Impact Analysis: Bias from Dropouts

Date: December 2007
Authors: Gwendolyn Alexander-Tedeschi, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Expanding Credit Access: Improving Microfinance Operations and Measuring Impact with Credit Scoring

Date: December 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: South Africa
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Research

The Impact of Microfinance: A Review of Methodological Issues

Date: November 2007
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Insurance, Savings, Training
Focus: Methodology

Participation in a School Incentive Program in India (forthcoming in Journal of Development Studies)

Date: April 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Sharon Barnhardt, Stuti Khemani
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes

Date: March 2007
Authors: Justine Hastings, Jeffrey Weinstein
Country: United States
Sectors: Education
Focus: Methodology

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Date: December 2006
Authors: Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer
Country: Global
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Methodology

Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption

Date: November 2006
Authors: Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna
Country: India
Sectors: Community
Themes: Corruption
Focus: Research

Optimizing Loan Contracting and Marketing Strategies Using Field Experimentation (prepared for the 2006 Microcredit Summit)

Date: November 2006
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Interest Rates, Marketing
Focus: Research

The Impact of Microfinance: A Review of Methodological Issues

Date: August 2006
Authors: Nathanael Goldberg, Dean Karlan
Country:
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Controlled Trials: Examples from Business Training and Group versus Individual Liability

Date: July 2006
Authors: Dean Karlan, Tomoko Harigaya, Sara Nadel
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Research Methodology
Focus: Research

Highlighted Publications

The Experimental Approach to Economics

Date: September 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo