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Mar 24, 2014
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael, 2013, "Data on Kenyan Youths", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TDFJ7X, Harvard Dataverse, V4
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy les... |
Jan 28, 2014
Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Benjamin; Tobias, Julia, 2013, "Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M7SKQZ, Harvard Dataverse, V5
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per capita consumption, community targeting and the hybri... |
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward, 2013, "Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Preanalysis Plan", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NBLI7C, Harvard Dataverse, V4
Despite their importance, there is limited evidence on how institutions can be strengthened. Evaluating the effects of specific reforms is complicated by the lack of exogenous variation in institutions, the difficulty of measuring institutional performance, and the temptation to “cherry pick” estimates from among the large number of indicators requ... |
May 1, 2013
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kothari, Dhruva, 2010, "Improving Immunization Coverage in Rural India", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4IYQLO, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:5:ILdfai63juQIQ5NBgUVuMQ== [fileUNF]
This database contains data used in "Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives." This data includes immunization history and household information for 5565 children, as well as supplemental information obtained from records kept at immunization ca... |
Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; Robinson, Jonathan, 2012, "Fertilizer Use in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YM9F07, Harvard Dataverse, V3
We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer and assume some are stochastically present biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too impatient to purchase fertilizer. Consistent with the model, many farmers in We... |
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; Keniston, Daniel; Singh, Nina, 2011, "Rajasthan Police Performance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OC35YC, Harvard Dataverse, V9
The Rajasthan Police initiated an intervention in 2006 with researchers which aimed to enhance police performance, improve public opinion, and gather objective information about crime rates and performance. In response to survey data that identified issues of concern, the police (with input from the researchers) designed four interventions, randoml... |
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema, 2007, "Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LRDXHX, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:3:x1SrSiS2JvZWUUnaLJCGhA== [fileUNF]
This data was collected from a randomized experiment run by Seva Mandir and J-PAL in the tribal villages of Udaipur, India. An incentives program was implemented to reduce high teacher absence in non-formal primary education centers (NFEC's). In 60 randomly chosen centers (out of 120) teachers were given a camera with a tamper-proof date and time f... |
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther, 2007, "Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QUL81Y, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:wHfqr1S603xqycOiA9iPCQ== [fileUNF]
This paper examines evidence of the role that reputation plays in determining contractual outcomes. We conduct an empirical analysis of the Indian customized software industry, using a data set we collected containing detailed information on 230 projects carried out by 125 software firms. We propose a model ofthe industry where reputation determine... |
Hoff, Karla; Pandey, Priyanka, 2007, "Persistent Effects of Discrimination and the Role of Social Identity", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CKNIRS, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:NNe7Tn/a+/s2rMqo8Bjwrg== [fileUNF]
We experimentally investigated the effect on behavior of publicly revealing individuals_ membership in a traditionally discriminated against group. In village India, 168 low-caste and 168 high-caste junior high school boys solved mazes under piece rate incentives. In mixed-caste groups, the high-caste subjects solved 7 percent more mazes than the l... |
Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther, 2007, "Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India, 1998-2002", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2ENLN4, Harvard Dataverse, V4, UNF:5:E5H0+0GuNP6GkJhtFGxmtA== [fileUNF]
This data set uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy decisions. Using a dataset we collected on 265 village councils in West Bengal and Rajasthan, we compare the type of public goods provided in reserved and unreserved village's councils. Data sets based upon information provided by GP Pra... |
