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Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …
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distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya …
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I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
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, 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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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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.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 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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audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …
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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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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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