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Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure Without Network Data

Breza, Emily - 2017

alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …

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Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Andersen, Steffen - 2018

Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...

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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2016

learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher … students, but the relative gain was much greater for academically-weaker students because their rate of learning in the control … learning levels within a single grade by precisely targeting instruction to the level of student preparation. The program was …

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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Das, Jishnu - 2015

We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...

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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation

Gertler, Paul J. - 2015

-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Maitra, Pushkar - 2014

Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...

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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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Motivating Migrants : A Field Experiment on Financial Decision-Making in Transnational Households

Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2014

habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and …

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Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health : Evidence from Hypertension in India

Bai, Liang - 2017

increasing preventive doctor visits by hypertensive patients in rural India. We document varying levels of takeup of the …

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