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Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2009
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Policy and Practice

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

Credit Market Innovations

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Credit
Focus: Policy and Practice

Risk Management and Insurance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Insurance
Focus: Policy and Practice

The Economics of Saving

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch
Country: Global
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Big Picture, Savings
Focus: Policy and Practice

Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Date: May 2009
Authors: Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Themes: Big Picture, Participation
Focus: Policy and Practice

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

Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluation in Education and Health

Date: August 2008
Authors: Michael Kremer, Alaka Holla
Country: Global
Sectors: Education, Health
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

A Behavioural Perspective on Consumer Protection

Date: January 2008
Authors: Eldar Shafir
Country: South Africa, United States
Themes: Behavioral Economics, Big Picture, Consumer Protection, Financial Literacy, Marketing, Product Design
Focus: Policy and Practice

Is Microfinance Too Rigid?

Date: December 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
Focus: Policy and Practice

What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Date: May 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Alaka Holla
Country: Global
Sectors: Health
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

Public-Private Partnerships for Quality Education in India (Seminar, Issue #565)

Date: September 2006
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Themes: Participation
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

Reward Teachers But Ensure Output (The Indian Express)

Date: June 2006
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan
Country: Global
Sectors: Education
Focus: Policy and Practice

Fighting Poverty: What Works? Education: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals

Date: May 2006
Authors: Rachel Glennerster
Country: Global
Sectors: Education
Focus: Methodology

Addressing Absence

Date: January 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Country: India, Kenya
Sectors: Education
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

Date: September 2004
Authors: Esther Duflo, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Country: India
Sectors: Community
Themes: Gender, Participation
Focus: Research

Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan

Date: February 2004
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Angus Deaton
Country: India
Sectors: Health
Focus: Research

Highlighted Publications

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2009
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman

The Experimental Approach to Economics

Date: September 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Addressing Absence

Date: January 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo