Meeting 3

• "Providing Safe Water: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations," Discussion Paper 2010--23, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Environmental Economics Program, September, 2010.

More about the presenter, Michael Kremer:

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing countries, immigration, and globalization. He and Rachel Glennerster have recently published Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases. His articles have been published in journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Kremer previously served as a teacher in Kenya. He founded and was the first Executive Director of WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places more than 360 volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986 to 1989).

Most recent publications include:

• Education as Liberation?
• Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya;
• Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions;
• Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya.

More useful links:

• HKS faculty biography
• Personal web site

In the News:

• Featured in The Harvard Gazette in an article on chlorine dispensers for safe water: "Willing a way to clean water", February 16, 2012.