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The fiscal cost of weak governance : evidence from teacher absence in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Das, Jishnu; Holla, Alaka; … - In: Journal of public economics 145 (2017), pp. 116-135
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Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself … results highlight that attempts to reduce corruption in welfare programs by making ID requirements more stringent can also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841921
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Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
? The core design challenge is managing the tradeoff between Type-II errors of inclusion (including corruption) against Type … the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself … corruption in welfare programs can also generate non-trivial costs in terms of exclusion and inconvenience to genuine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479268
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Identity verification standards in welfare programs : experimental evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194918
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Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
Factorial designs are widely used for studying multiple treatments in one experiment. While "long" model t-tests provide valid inferences, "short" model t-tests (ignoring interactions) yield higher power if interactions are zero, but incorrect inferences otherwise. Of 27 factorial experiments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207902
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Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
Factorial designs are widely used for studying multiple treatments in one experiment. While "long" model t-tests provide valid inferences, "short" model t-tests (ignoring interactions) yield higher power if interactions are zero, but incorrect inferences otherwise. Of 27 factorial experiments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839853
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Factorial designs, model selection, and (incorrect) inference in randomized experiments
Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2020
Factorial designs are widely used for studying multiple treatments in one experiment. While "long" model t-tests provide valid inferences, "short" model t-tests (ignoring interactions) yield higher power if interactions are zero, but incorrect inferences otherwise. Of 27 factorial experiments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174462
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 2013
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...
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Missing in action : teacher and health worker absence in developing countries
Chaudhury, Nazmul; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Kremer, Michael; … - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 20 (2006) 1, pp. 91-116
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Teacher performance pay : experimental evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882173