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You've Earned It : Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences

Jakiela, Pamela - 2010

We combine data from a field experiment and a laboratory experiment to measure the causal impact of human capital on … that randomized field experiments can be successfully combined with laboratory experiment data to measure causal impacts on …

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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Duflo, Esther - 2004

We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of...

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Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities

Glennerster, Rachel - 2010

Scholars have pointed to ethnic and other social divisions as a leading cause of economic underdevelopment, due in part to their adverse effects on public good provision and collective action. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world's poorest countries. To address...

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Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

Accumulating evidence indicates that environmental temperature substantially affects economic outcomes and violence, but the reasons for this linkage are not well understood. We systematically evaluate the effect of thermal stress on multiple dimensions of economic decisionmaking, judgment, and...

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General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Egger, Dennis - 2019

How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one-time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied...

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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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How Strong are Ethnic Preferences?

Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal - 2015

-specified in a registered pre-analysis plan. Most of our tests yield no evidence of differential altruism towards coethnics …

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