Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of … president receive twice as much expenditure on roads and have four times the length of paved roads built. This favoritism …

-run effects. We discuss ways to bridge the gap between the burgeoning number of development RCTs and the limited number that have … development economics RCTs since roughly 2000 provides a novel opportunity to generate high-quality evidence on the long …

), disputes these findings. The authors conclude that while treatment of children known to be infected increases weight by 0.75 kg … from studies of children known to be infected. The hypothesis of a common zero effect of multiple-dose MDA deworming on … effect on child weight is 0.148 kg (95% CI: 0.039, 0.258). The implied average effect of MDA on infected children in the full …

school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in …

sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with additional exposure to childhood deworming have children with improved … human capital, including in health, non-cognitive development, and cognition; cognitive scores are +0.26 standard deviation … units higher among treated parents' school-age children, only prior to school closures. Findings are interpreted through a …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …

' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality … rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination … of improved health, education and living standards, increased urban residence, delayed fertility, and greater use of …

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

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