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The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation.

Date: June 2007
Authors: Justine Hastings, Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger, Jeffrey Weinstein
Country: United States
Sectors: Education, Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

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

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

Migration and mental health: evidence from a natural experiment

Date: February 2007
Authors: David McKenzie, John Gibson, Steven Stillman
Country: Tonga
Sectors: Health
Focus: Research

Social Connections and Group Banking

Date: February 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan
Country: Peru
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Product Design
Focus: Research

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

Date: January 2007
Authors: Dean Karlan, John List
Country: United States
Sectors: Charitable Giving
Themes: Behavioral Economics
Focus: Research

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Date: January 2007
Country: Indonesia
Sectors: Community
Themes: Corruption

Does The Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions

Date: December 2006
Authors: Dean Karlan, Alan Gerber, Daniel Bergan
Country: United States
Sectors: Community
Themes: Participation
Focus: Research

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

Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Date: November 2006
Authors: Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
Country: Peru
Sectors: Microfinance & Enterprise
Themes: Financial Literacy, Training
Focus: Research

Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention

Date: October 2006
Authors: Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer, Samuel Sinei
Sectors: Education, Health
Focus: Research

Moving To Opportunity In Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

Date: October 2006
Authors: , Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Liebman
Country: United States
Focus: Research

Remedying Education Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Date: October 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Leigh Linden, Shawn Cole
Country: India
Sectors: Education
Focus: Research

The Economic Lives of the Poor

Date: October 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Country: Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa
Themes: Behavioral Economics

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

Can information campaigns spark local participation and improve outcomes? A study of primary education in Uttar Pradesh, India

Date: July 2006
Authors: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Rukmini Banerji, Stuti Khemani
Country: India
Sectors: Education, 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