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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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Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms : An Experimental Investigation

Featherstone, Clayton - 2008

Criteria for evaluating school choice mechanisms are first, whether truth-telling is sometimes punished and second, how efficient the match is. With common knowledge preferences, Deferred Acceptance (DA) dominates the Boston mechanism by the first criterion and is ambiguously ranked by the...

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Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges : The Role of Institutions

Niederle, Muriel - 2008

We examine whether women and men of the same ability differ in their decisions to seek challenges. In the laboratory, we create an environment in which we can measure a participants performance level (high or low), where a high performance level participant has on average higher earnings from...

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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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Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

Niederle, Muriel - 2005

experiment perform a real task under a non-competitive piece rate and a competitive tournament scheme. Although there are no …

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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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Knowing When to Ask : The Cost of Leaning In

Exley, Christine L. - 2016

for women to "lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women …

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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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