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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages …, education, beauty, and other attributes. We then compute a set of stable matches, which we compare to the actual matches that we …
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more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes …-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In …We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low …
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We evaluate a large-scale set of interventions to increase demand for immunization in Haryana, India. The policies … vaccination drives; (b) individuals receive incentives for vaccinating their children; (c) influential individuals (information …
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on an anti-drunken driving campaign in Rajasthan, India. In each police station, sobriety checkpoints were either rotated …
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, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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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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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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Formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and information networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed network data. Networks shrink more in exposed villages....
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … aware of the existence of these committees and their potential for improving education. This paper evaluates three different …
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