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We evaluate a large-scale set of interventions to increase demand for immunization in Haryana, India. The policies …
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on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …
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, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India. Twenty-five million individuals were sent an SMS …
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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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Formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and information networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed network data. Networks shrink more in exposed villages....
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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
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We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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