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Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan, 2017, "Referrals: Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PBQE5A, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Empirical evidence on peer intermediation lags behind both theory and practice in which lenders use peers to mitigate adverse selection and moral hazard. Using a referral incentive under individual liability, we develop a two-stage field experiment that permits separate identification of peer screening and enforcement. Our key contribution is to al... |
Nov 28, 2017
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
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
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
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... |
Oct 17, 2017 - The Quarterly Journal of Economics Dataverse
Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Shamdasani, Yogita, 2017, "Replication Data for: 'The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality'", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VUUZJK, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality", by Breza, Kaur, and Shamdasani. |
Oct 6, 2017
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
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... |
Jul 11, 2017
Galiani, Sebastian; Meléndez, Marcela; Navajas, Camila, 2017, "On the Effect of the Costs of Operating Formally: New Experimental Evidence", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LLKSIA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:sng3qEojgF+cetf3zPmddg== [fileUNF]
This paper analyzes the impact of the elimination of the initial fixed costs of registration on the decision of informal firms to operate formally in Bogotá, Colombia. The Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá (CCB) conducts workshops for prospective formal-sector entrants and arranges personalized meetings for them with CCB agents. The CCB’s decision to s... |
Jul 7, 2017
Dillon, Moira R.; Kannan, Harini; Dean, Joshua T.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Duflo, Esther, 2017, "Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably improves non-symbolic, but not symbolic, mathematics", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LCLKDT, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:3ZETupFY/D5NCtK4x25JKQ== [fileUNF]
Many children in developing countries grow up in economically poor environments and often also suffer from poorly performing educational systems. Dillon et al. designed inexpensive, locally sourced games—five for mathematics and five for social cognition—for use in preschools in Delhi. They measured the effects of these interventions 3, 9, and 15 m... |
