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Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …

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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019

distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya …

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Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Dupas, Pascaline - 2009

I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …

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Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Dupas, Pascaline - 2009

, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working as bicycle-taxi drivers. Despite large withdrawal fees, a substantial … share of market women used the accounts, were able to save more, and increased their productive investment and private …

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2008

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 present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment

Cohen, Jessica - 2008

.75 (i.e. from 100 to 87.5 percent subsidy), the price at which ITNs are currently sold to pregnant women in Kenya. We … experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at which prenatal clinics could sell long lasting anti-malarial insecticide …-treated nets (ITNs) to pregnant women. We find no evidence that cost-sharing reduces wastage on those that will not use the product …

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The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya

Dupas, Pascaline - 2015

The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...

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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015

audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2014

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...

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Daily Needs, Income Targets and Labor Supply : Evidence from Kenya

Dupas, Pascaline - 2013

drivers in Western Kenya, we provide evidence that many individuals treat their daily cash need as the day's target. We …

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