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Emerick, Kyle, 2020, "Trading frictions in Indian village economies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/90WZHM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:lQeC+ogeRN2HDrI5Mkg/EA== [fileUNF]
This package contains the replication data for: "Trading frictions in Indian village economies". The data include the underlying raw and estimation data files, the replication code and the questionnaires. There are 6 datasets containing data from 4 surveys: a survey with original recipients in June 2013, a survey with non-recipient farmers in Febru... |
Apr 9, 2020
Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret A., 2020, "Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IR4SBY, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We conduct a randomized field experiment with a Yale service club and find that the promise of public recognition increases giving. Some may claim that they give when offered public recognition in order to motivate others to give too, rather than for the more obvious expected private gain from increasing one's social standing. To tease apart these... |
Mar 5, 2020
Raifman, Julia R. G.; Lanthorn, Heather E.; Rokicki, Slawa; Fink, Günther, 2020, "The Impact of Text Message Reminders on Adherence to Antimalarial Treatment in Northern Ghana: A Randomized Trial", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M4LY6C, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Background: Low rates of adherence to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) regimens increase the risk of treatment failure and may lead to drug resistance, threatening the sustainability of current anti-malarial efforts. We assessed the impact of text message reminders on adherence to ACT regimens. Methods: Health workers at hospitals, clini... |
Feb 27, 2020
Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Roth, Benjamin N., 2020, "Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0KHZMI, Harvard Dataverse, V2
A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by re-financing). Studying such practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances, and also for setting appropriate consumer protect... |
Feb 26, 2020
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan, 2020, "Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NDPX4T, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We use randomized interest rates, offered across eighty geographically distinct regions for twenty-nine month by Mexico's largest microlender, to sketch the adjustment from a price change to a new equilibrium. Demand is elastic, and more so over the longer run; e.g. the dollars-borrowed elasticity increases from -1.1 in Year one to -2.9 in Year thr... |
Feb 24, 2020
Chang, Alberto; De La O, Ana L.; Karlan, Dean; Wantchekon, Leonard, 2020, "Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KJABMA, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Retrospective voting models assume that offering more information to voters about their incumbents’ performance strengthens electoral accountability. However, it is unclear whether incumbent corruption information translates into higher political participation and increased support for challengers. We provide experimental evidence that such informa... |
Romero, Mauricio; Sandefur, Justin; Sandholtz, Wayne, 2018, "Partnership Schools for Liberia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5OPIYU, Harvard Dataverse, V4
The Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) program will delegate and transfer administrative management of 92 randomly assigned public schools to a variety of private, for-profit companies and non-profit organizations to provide education free of charge to students. However, to understand the impacts of the pilot program and improve future processes... |
Dec 13, 2019
Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian, 2019, "The long term impacts of grants on poverty: 9-year evidence from Uganda’s Youth Opportunities Program", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V0N0HA, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In 2008, Uganda gave $400/person to thousands of young people to help them start skilled trades, work more, and raise incomes. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised work by 17% and earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). After 9 years, we find these gains have dissipated. Grantees’ investment leveled off; controls... |
Crépon, Bruno; Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Parienté, William, 2019, "“Verifying the internal validity of a flagship RCT: A review of Crépon, Devoto, Duflo and Parienté”: A rejoinder", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/C6OW6C, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:oOOjb7LYS99ixpG8wD6xbA== [fileUNF]
In a recent paper, Bédecarrats, Guerin, Morvan-Roux and Roubaud (2019) re- analyze the data from a randomized controlled trial of the impact of the program of Al Amana, a microcredit organization in Morocco, which we published in 2015 (Crépon, Devoto, Duflo, and Parienté, 2015). They make a number of strong claims about the validity of our appro... |
Fafchamps, Marcel; Quinn, Simon, 2019, "Replication Data for: Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HW9JQY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:MklmBxnQIjbQ4/OqEhNtdA== [fileUNF]
We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment resembles the many forms of interaction that business and community organizations offer to their members. The design features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo. We study the impa... |
