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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research : A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther - 2006

This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution to publication...

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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2005

Many efforts to improve school quality by adding school resources have proven to be ineffective. 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 program...

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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families : Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Duflo, Esther - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R Block, offering matching …

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The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Duflo, Esther - 2002

This paper analyzes a randomized experiment to shed light on the role of information and social interactions in … employees' decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account (TDA) retirement plan within a large university. The experiment … university, by promising a monetary reward for attendance. The experiment more than tripled the attendance rate of these treated …

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Movies, Margins and Marketing : Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2015

A set of randomized experiments shed light on how markets and information influence household decisions to adopt nutritional innovations. Of 400 Indian villages, we randomly assigned half to an intervention where all shopkeepers were offered the option to sell a new salt, fortified with both...

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Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India : Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy and Training

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2012

improve interactions with the public. In a sample of 162 police stations serving almost 8 million people, the first experiment … a second experiment that provided explicit incentives to police officers to carry out sobriety traffic checkpoints and …

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