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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018

Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...

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Partner Selection into Policy Relevant Field Experiments

Belot, Michele; James, Jonathan - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013

-relevant experiments. We document and test the implications of self-selection in the context of randomised policy experiment we conducted … between variables which, albeit to a mild degree, are correlated with selection into the experiment. To our knowledge, this is …This study investigates the issue of self-selection of stakeholders into participation and collaboration in policy …

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Factorial designs, model selection, and (incorrect) inference in randomized experiments

Muralidharan, Karthik; Romero, Mauricio; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2019

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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019

Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a largescale correspondence test in...

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