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-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and …
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-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch …
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …
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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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Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of individuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to "diffusion...
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How should policymakers disseminate information: by broadcasting it widely (e.g., via mass media), or letting word spread from a small number of initially informed “seed” individuals? While conventional wisdom suggests delivering information more widely is better, we show theoretically and...
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the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality …
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, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India. Twenty-five million individuals were sent an SMS …
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