During health crises, like COVID-19, individuals are inundated with messages promoting health- preserving behavior. Does additional light-touch messaging by a credible individual change behavior? Do t...
On 14 Jul 2020 The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a
specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replicatio...
On 14 Dec 2016 In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, a large-scale experiment is conducted to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase
accountability and reduce corrupt...
On 02 Dec 2016 This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron
deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) — salt fortified with iron and iodine. They conducted a large-sc...
On 23 Mar 2016 The paper examines these issues by conducting a randomized field experiment in 572 Indonesian localities in which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the imp...
On 07 Jan 2016 A wide range of interventions, from subsidized grains all the way to conditions on nutrition in conditional cash transfers, have either been tried or put in place in different countries in order to fi...
On 12 Oct 2015 It is shown that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by
tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to “diffusion centrality,” which nests other stan...
On 20 Aug 2014 The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jacks...
On 19 Jun 2014 This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi-
librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate
fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No....
On 03 Apr 2014 In this paper, a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies is provided. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on bette...
On 24 Apr 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
On 02 Mar 2012 Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized t...
On 27 Feb 2012 One reason anti-poverty policy has not worked better than it has is because, one went into it naively, without enough of an understanding of what makes it hard. This essay is about what the author hav...
On 16 Mar 2011 Microcredit has spread extremely rapidly since its beginnings in the late 1970s, but
whether and how much it helps the poor is the subject of intense debate.This paper reports
on the first randomize...
On 10 Mar 2011 They begin the paper by laying out a simple methodology that allows them to
determine whether firms are credit constrained, based on how they react to
changes in directed lending programs. The basic...
On 22 Feb 2011 This paper studies the effect of community identity on investment behavior
in the knitted garment industry in the South Indian town of Tirupur. [BREAD Working Paper No. 004] URL: [http://ipl.econ.duk...
On 03 Feb 2011 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
On 03 Sep 2010 This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level
of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of
the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of...
On 13 May 2010 This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. A unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimon...
On 28 Jul 2009 Household surveys from 13 developing countries are used to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “m...
On 31 Jan 2008 The implications of alternative ways to model decisionmaking by families for educational policy are analysed. Many of the policy implications associated with credit constraints cannot be distinguished...
On 11 Sep 2007 Increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment,...
On 19 Jul 2007 This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme...
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