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Jan 29, 2017 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Baldwin, Kate; Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Appiah, Ernest, 2017, "Does Community-Based Development Empower Citizens? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Ghana", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGLOZF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8HkIfLgSpXoTQpSes2IQHg== [fileUNF]
The “community-based development” approach may empower citizens and improve outcomes through three mechanisms: (1) an immediate direct effect of engaging citizens to decide how to allocate resources within the community-based development program, (2) an indirect effect on community organization that improves citizen engagement with other local inst... |
Jan 29, 2017 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Schaner, Simone, 2017, "Do Opposites Detract? Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity and Inefficient Strategic Savings", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QQUIZC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:YBNp74AmMwBPA9h+bKg48w== [fileUNF]
This paper uses a field experiment to test whether intrahousehold heterogeneity in discount factors leads to inefficient strategic savings behavior. I gave married couples in rural Kenya the opportunity to open both joint and individual bank accounts at randomly assigned interest rates. I also directly elicited discount factors for all individuals... |
Jan 6, 2017 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Dupas, Pascaline, 2017, "What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EH1PI9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:kg1boE0DzVy6yHn1CEKrrA== [fileUNF]
This paper tests the effects on the take-up of a preventative health product of two interventions based on behavioral models derived from psychology: varying the framing of the perceived benefits; and having people verbally commit to purchase the product. I find that none of these interventions had a significant effect (whether economically or stat... |
Cohen, Jessica; Dupas, Pascaline; Schaner, Simone, 2017, "Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EQJPZT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:aPF63YC+ysZ6ZFzORnJHeQ== [fileUNF]
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving antimalarials sold over-the-counter at retail drug outlets. W... |
Mohammed, Shama; Glennerster, Rachel; Khan, Aamir J., 2016, "Monitoring Patient Compliance with Tuberuclosis Treatment Regimens", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HVJ2CM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:aHFORl4xi0hSaBVRgIYTYw== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains data collected for a randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of Zindagi SMS, a two-way SMS reminder system for people with drug-susceptible tuberculosis in Karachi, Pakistan. |
Dupas, Pascaline; Hoffman, Vivian; Kremer, Michael; Zwane, Alix Peterson, 2016, "Targeting health subsidies through a non-price mechanism: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PBLJXJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:o9p/z3897g9+EMCz/1RHCg== [fileUNF]
Free provision of preventive health products can dramatically increase access in low income countries. A cost concern about free provision is that some recipients may not use the product, wasting resources. Yet charging a price to screen out non-users may screen out poor people who need and would use the product. We report on a randomized controlle... |
Field, Erica; Glennerster, Rachel; Nazneen, Shahana, 2016, "Impact of Financial Incentives on Child Marriage and Schooling in Bangladesh - Baseline Census", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/48GFKU, Harvard Dataverse, V2
This dataset provides baseline information on 281,337 households in 6 sub-districts (upazilas) in rural Southern Bangladesh. Information were collected on household composition, marriage, education and employment as part of a census in 610 villages between January and February 2007. Information was collected by surveying one household member per ho... |
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan, 2016, "Governance and Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P04NKK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:FqKFNFxZYDV4feiL59dmjw== [fileUNF]
Heavily subsidizing essential health products through existing health infrastructure could substantially improve health in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance – in particular, limited health worker accountability – seriously undermines the effectiveness of subsidy programs. Using innovative audits of target... |
Apr 20, 2016 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan, 2016, "Microcredit in Theory and Practice: Using Randomized Credit Scoring for Impact Evaluation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOTBOK, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:Ax3TYbXdIjXoqHVg75FqJQ== [fileUNF]
Microcredit institutions spend billions of dollars fighting poverty by making small loans primarily to female entrepreneurs. Proponents argue that microcredit mitigates market failures, spurs micro-enterprise growth, and boosts borrowers’ well-being. We tested these hypotheses with the use of an innovative, replicable experimental design that rando... |
Crépon, Bruno; Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Parienté, William, 2016, "Estimating the impact of microcredit on those who take it up: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Morocco", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DDIDEY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:W2cyKiiMrafV+WmgdxLFMA== [fileUNF]
We report results from a randomized evaluation of a microcredit program introduced in rural areas of Morocco in 2006. Thirteen percent of the households in treatment villages took a loan, and none in control villages. Among households identified as more likely to borrow, microcredit access led to a significant rise in investment in assets used for... |
