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Nov 28, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Dupas, Pascaline; Huillery, Elise; Seban, Juliette, 2017, "Risk information, risk salience, and adolescent sexual behavior: Experimental evidence from Cameroon", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MLVGY9, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Why do teenagers take risks and what can be done about it? Results from a randomized experiment conducted with teenage schoolgirls in Cameroon suggest that risky sexual behavior responds to both risk mitigation information and risk salience. We find that sexual education sessions delivered to students either by specialized consultants over an hour,... |
Oct 31, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Sautmann, Anja; Schaner, Simone, 2017, "Incentives for Accurate Diagnosis: Improving Health Care Quality in Mali", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CLGN7Z, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This data on doctor-patient interactions and malaria treatment was collected for the project "Incentives for Accurate Diagnosis: Improving Health Care Quality in Mali" funded by DfiD/ESRC Development Frontier Award ES/N00583X/1. |
Oct 25, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Pons, Vincent, 2017, "Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Vote Choice in France", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UPXUQB, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million door... |
Oct 23, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Braconnier, Céline; Dormage, Jean-Yves; Pons, Vincent, 2017, "Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ILZ5QL, Harvard Dataverse, V2
A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation.We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing either informa... |
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel H., 2017, "The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RDHJQZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:/4inN17v5fO0z1k4w8dspw== [fileUNF]
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity’s effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program’s impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used for both treatment and control, included a standard quali... |
Oct 6, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin; Purnamasari, Ririn; Wai-Poi, Matthew, 2017, "Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6ZUIUC, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This paper shows that adding a small application cost to transfer program can substantially improve targeting through self-selection. Our village-level experiment in Indonesia finds that requiring beneficiaries to apply for benefits results in substantially poorer beneficiaries than automatic enrollment using the same asset test. Marginally increas... |
Oct 3, 2017 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Dupas, Pascaline; Keats, Anthony; Robinson, Jonathan, 2017, "The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WBD2QD, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. In this experiment, we provided free bank accounts to a random subset of 885 households. Across households, we document positive spillovers: tre... |
Aug 29, 2017
Schaner, Simone, 2017, "The Cost of Convenience? Transaction Costs, Bargaining Power, and Savings Account Use in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/41UCHG, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ATNidNLxmd/7jYdTCt5gAQ== [fileUNF]
Individuals across the world use high-transaction-cost savings devices, even when lower-cost technologies are available. High costs may help savers protect resources from the demands of others. I investigate this hypothesis by randomly assigning ATM cards to 1,100 newly-opened bank accounts in rural Kenya. These cards reduced withdrawal fees by 50... |
Karlan, Dean; Savonitto, Beniamino; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, Christopher, 2017, "Impact of Savings Groups on the Lives of the Poor", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EJTYHC, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:6:wR8en8l810rs5YKJSt7raA== [fileUNF]
Savings-led microfinance programs operate in poor rural communities in developing countries to establish groups that save and then lend out the accumulated savings to each other. Nonprofit organizations train villagers to create and lead these groups. In a clustered randomized evaluation spanning three African countries (Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda),... |
Hicken, Alan; Leider, Stephen; Ravanilla, Nico; Yang, Dean, 2017, "Measuring Vote-Selling: Field Evidence from the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YPNV1Y, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:rEngGBLo3sh0qcdi/Akwhg== [fileUNF]
Using data from an anti-vote-buying field experiment we conducted in the Philippines, we report and validate a proxy measure for vote-selling. We demonstrate that our proxy measure, vote-switching, changes as expected with voter preferences and monetary offers from candidates. Voters are less likely to vote for someone different than their initial... |
