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Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation

Date: December 2008
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Country: Philippines
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Commitment Devices
Focus: Research

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Date: December 2008
Authors: Justine Hastings, Ebonya Washington
Country: United States
Focus: Research

Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Date: November 2008
Authors: Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Date: November 2008
Authors: David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff
Country: Sri Lanka
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit
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

Trust and Social Collateral

Date: October 2008
Authors: Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl
Country: Peru
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2008
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment in Kenya

Date: September 2008
Authors: Pascaline Dupas, Jessica Cohen
Country: Kenya
Sectors: Health
Focus: Research

Get-Out-the-Vote Phone Calls: Does Quality Matter?

Date: September 2008
Authors: Dean Karlan, Shang Ha
Country: United States
Sectors: Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

Insurance, credit, and technology adoption: Field experimental evidence from Malawi

Date: September 2008
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Yang
Country: Malawi
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Insurance, Technology Adoption
Focus: Research

The Experimental Approach to Economics

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

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

Date: August 2008
Authors: Nava Ashraf, James Berry, Jesse M. Shapiro
Country: Zambia
Sectors: Health
Themes: Behavioral Economics, Commercialization & Subsidy
Focus: Research

Contract Structure, Risk Sharing and Investment Choice

Date: August 2008
Authors: Greg Fischer
Country: India
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Credit, Product Design
Focus: Research

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India

Date: August 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Rukmini Banerji, Stuti Khemani
Country: India
Sectors: Education, Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

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

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: July 2008
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Date: June 2008
Authors: Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova
Country: India
Sectors: Community
Themes: Gender
Focus: Research

Complement or Substitute? The Effect of Technology on Student Achievement in India

Date: June 2008
Authors: Leigh Linden
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Themes: Technology Adoption
Focus: Research

Heterogeneous Preferences and the Efficacy of Public School Choice

Date: June 2008
Authors: Justine Hastings, Thomas Kaine, Douglas Staiger
Country: United States
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

Mandated Empowerment: Handing Antipoverty Policy Back to the Poor?

Date: June 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Country: Global
Sectors: Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

Highlighted Publications

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Date: May 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Vivi Alatas, Rema Hanna, Julia Tobias

Giving Credit Where it is Due

Date: March 2010
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

Date: September 2009
Authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman

Access to Finance

Date: June 2009
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch

Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

Date: January 2009
Authors: David McKenzie, Suresh de Mel, Christopher Woodruff

The Experimental Approach to Economics

Date: September 2008
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

The Illusion of Sustainability

Date: August 2007
Authors: Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel

Addressing Absence

Date: January 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo