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  • Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates 
    Zwane, Alix Peterson; Zinman, Jonathan; Dusen, Eric Van; Pariente, William; Null, Clair; Miguel, Edward; Kremer, Michael; Karlan, Dean S.; Hornbeck, Richard; Gine, Xavier; Duflo, Esther; Devoto, Florencia; Crepon, Bruno; Banerjee, Abhijit (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2011-01)
    Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health and/or household finances ...
  • Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates 
    Zwane, Alix Peterson; Zinman, Jonathan; Van Dusen, Eric; Pariente, William; Null, Claire; Miguel, Edward; Kremer, Michael; Karlan, Dean S.; Hornbeck, Richard; Gine, Xavier; Duflo, Esther; Devoto, Florencia; Crepon, Bruno; Banerjee, Abhijit (National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2011-01)
    Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health and/or household finances ...
  • Giving Credit Where It Is Due 
    Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther (American Economic Association, 2010-06)
    This paper shows how the productive interplay of theory and experimental work has furthered our understanding of credit markets in developing countries. Descriptive facts motivated a body of theory, which in turned ...
  • Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco 
    Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Pariente, William; Pons, Vincent (American Economic Association, 2012-11)
    Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not ...
  • Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives 
    Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kothari, Dhruva (BMJ Publishing Group, Ltd., 2010-05)
    Objective To assess the efficacy of modest non-financial incentives on immunisation rates in children aged 1-3 and to compare it with the effect of only improving the reliability of the supply of services. Design ...
  • Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School 
    Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen (American Economic Association, 2012-06)
    We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India. In treatment schools, teachers' attendance was monitored ...
  • LONG-RUN HEALTH IMPACTS OF INCOME SHOCKS: WINE AND PHYLLOXERA IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE 
    Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Postel-Vinay, Gilles; Watts, Tim (President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-11)
    Between 1863 and 1890, phylloxera destroyed 40% of French vineyards. Using the regional variation in the timing of this shock, we identify and examine the effects on adult height, health, and life expectancy of children ...
  • Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya 
    Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; Robinson, Jonathan (American Economic Association, 2010-10)
    We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer and assume some are stochastically present biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer ...
  • Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya 
    Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael (American Economic Association, 2011-08)
    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. ...
  • Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India 
    Banerji, Rukmini; Khemani, Stuti; Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel (American Economic Association, 2010-02)
    Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their quality. We conducted a randomized evaluation of three interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation ...
  • Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? 
    Duflo, Esther; Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Pande, Rohini; Topalova, Petia (MIT Press, 2009-11)
    We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female leader is associated with electoral gains for women. After ten years of quotas, ...
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