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, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …
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To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...
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experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at which prenatal clinics could sell long lasting anti-malarial insecticide ….75 (i.e. from 100 to 87.5 percent subsidy), the price at which ITNs are currently sold to pregnant women in Kenya. We …
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I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
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653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts …
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low and buy high" rather than the reverse. In a field experiment in Kenya, we show that credit market imperfections limit …
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132 ROSCAs in Kenya, one designed around communally storing maize and the other around saving cash for inputs. About 56 …
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— is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize laboratory experiments conducted in the U.S. and Kenya …
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This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...
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