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Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms : Experimental Evidence from India
Duflo, Esther - 2013
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict of interest. This paper reports on a two-year field experiment in the Indian state of Gujarat that sought to curb such a conflict by altering the market...
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Women as Policy Makers : Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - 2022
This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions …
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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E-Governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs : Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Imbert, Clément - 2016
In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether …
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