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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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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
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the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality …
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How should policymakers disseminate information: by broadcasting it widely (e.g., via mass media), or letting word spread from a small number of initially informed "seed" individuals? While conventional wisdom suggests delivering information more widely is better, we show theoretically and...
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Pratham's "Teaching at the Right Level" methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …
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Motivated by the quantitative and qualitative analysis of these early attempts, we adapted the approach and designed large-scale experiments in the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to test two new scale-up models. In Haryana, teachers received support from government resource persons trained...
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