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Food vs. Food Stamps : Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries …, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market. To understand the differences between these … that the change from in-kind food aid to vouchers led to substantial impacts on poverty through the way it changed how …

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Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs : Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

Cahyadi, Nur - 2018

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread worldwide, and are designed to promote comprehensive human capital investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and continuing through incentivizing school attendance....

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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...

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Measuring Discrimination in Education

Hanna, Rema - 2009

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam …

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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

Bertrand, Marianne - 2008

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther - 2005

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …

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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …

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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Hanna, Rema - 2013

In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...

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Up in Smoke : The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Hanna, Rema - 2012

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

Greenstone, Michael - 2011

infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The …

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