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Selected recent working papers and publications
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007
2013 and forthcoming
Does Elite Capture Matter: Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
Rema Hanna (with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi)
CID Working Paper #255
Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow: Do Public Investments Alleviate Constraints on the Provision of Private Education?
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India (Online Appendix)
Rohini Pande (with Erica Field, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol)
American Economic Review, forthcoming
What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-party Auditors
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
American Economic Review, 103(3)
2012
Markers and Drivers: Cardiovascular Health of Middle Age and Older Indians
Amitabh Chandra (with Jinkook Lee, P. Arokiasamy, Peifeng Hu, Jenny Liu, and Kevin Feeney)
Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives, National Academies Committee on Population
Corruption
Rema Hanna (with Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Handbook of Organizational Economics, R. Gibbons & J. Roberts (Eds.), Princeton University Press
Discrimination in Grading
Rema Hanna (with Leigh Linden)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(4): 146-168
Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
Rema Hanna (with Eva Arceo and Paulina Olivia)
CID Working Paper #244, NBER Working Paper #18349
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Rema Hanna (with Esther Duflo and Stephen Ryan)
American Economic Review, 102(4): 1241-1278
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
Rema Hanna (with Sendhil Mullainathan and Josh Schwartstein)
CID Working Paper #245
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Rema Hanna (with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Benjamin A. Olken)
CID Working Paper # 246
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Rema Hanna (with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi)
CID Working Paper #254
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Rema Hanna (with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, and Julia Tobias)
American Economic Review 102(4): 1206-1240
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Rema Hanna (with Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone)
CID Working Paper #241, NBER Working Paper #18033
Corruption in Developing Countries
Rohini Pande (with Benjamin A. Olken)
Annual Review of Economics, 4: 479-509
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance
Rohini Pande (with Ben Feigenberg and Erica Field)
Working paper
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India
Rohini Pande (with Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topolava)
Science 335(6068): 582-586
Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
Rohini Pande (with Timothy Besley and Vijayendra Rao)
World Bank Economic Review 26(2): 191-216
Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India
Rohini Pande (with Erica Field, John Papp, and Y. Jeanette Park)
PLoS ONE 7(9): e45679
Truth-Telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
Working paper
Agent-Based Modeling of the Effects of Social Norms on Enrollment in Payments for Ecosystem Services
Ryan Sheely (with Xiaodong Chen, Frank Lupi, Li An, Andrés Viña, and Jianguo Liu)
Ecological Modeling 229: 16-24
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda
David Yanagizawa-Drott (with Martina Björkman-Nyqvist and Jakob Svensson)
CID Working Paper #242
Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
David Yanagizawa-Drott
Working paper
2011
The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Mexico City
Rema Hanna (with Paulina Oliva)
CID Working Paper #225, NBER Working Paper #17302
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Rema Hanna (with Michael Greenstone)
CID Working Paper #224, NBER Working Paper #17210
Bank Credit and Business Networks
Asim Khwaja (with Atif Mian and Abid Qamar)
Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low Income Democracies
Rohini Pande
Annual Review of Economics 3(1): 215-237
Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Tristan Zajonc)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(3): 29-54
Improving Human Health Through a Market-Friendly Emissions Scheme
Rohini Pande (with Michael Greenstone, Aparna Krishnan, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan)
Seminar Volume for International Seminar on Global Environment and Disaster Management: Law and Society
Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution (Online Appendix)
Monica Singhal (with Erzo F.P. Luttmer)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3(1): 157-179
Informal Taxation (Appendices)
Monica Singhal (with Benjamin A. Olken)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(4): 1-28
2010
Affirmative Action: Evidence from College Admissions in India
Rema Hanna (with Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Journal of Public Economics 94(1-2): 16-29
The Impact of Inspections on Plant-Level Air Emissions
Rema Hanna (with Paulina Oliva)
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1)
Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Nor Any Dime to Lend: Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity
Asim Khwaja (with Atif Mian and Bilal Zia)
Review of Financial Studies 23(12): 4281-4323
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
Rohini Pande (with Erica Field and Seema Jayachandran)
American Economic Review 100(2): 125-129
Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
Discussion Paper, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India
Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India (Online Appendix)
Monica Singhal (with David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, and Tom Vogl)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(2): 72-94
2009
Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities?
Asim Khwaja
Journal of Public Economics 93(7): 899-916
The Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering
Asim Khwaja (with David Clingingsmith and Michael Kremer)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(3): 1133-1170
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
BREAD Working Paper
What Did You Do All Day? Mothers and Child Educational Outcomes
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
Rohini Pande (with Abhijit Banerjee)
Faculty Research Working Papers Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? (Online Appendix)
Rohini Pande (with Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topalova)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(4): 1497-1540
Getting Prices Right: The Impact of the Market Information Service in Uganda
David Yanagizawa-Drott (with Jakob Svensson)
Journal of the European Economic Association 7(2-3): 435-445
Social Capital vs. Institutions in the Growth Process
David Yanagizawa-Drott (with Pelle Ahlerup and Ola Olsson)
European Journal of Political Economy 25(1): 1-14
2008
A Dime a Day: The Possibilities and Limits of Private Schooling in Pakistan
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Comparative Education Review 52(3): 329-355
Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools (LEAPS): Insights to Inform the Education Policy Debate
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Tara Vishwanath, and Tristan Zajonc)
Forthcoming, Oxford University Press
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
Asim Khwaja (with Asif Mian)
American Economic Review 98(4): 1413-1442
Repayment Frequency and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from India
Rohini Pande (with Erica Field)
Journal of the European Economic Association 6(2-3): 501-509
Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
Rohini Pande (with Erica Field, Matthew Levinson, and Sujata Visaria)
American Economic Review 98(2): 505-510
2007
Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption
Rema Hanna (with Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(4): 1639-1676
Coordinating Development: Can Income-based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria? (Appendix containing omitted results)
Rohini Pande (with Philip Bond)
Journal of Development Economics 83(2): 368-391
Dams
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(2): 601-646
Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries
Rohini Pande
Handbook of Development Economics, Vol 4, T. Schultz & J. Strauss (Eds.), Elsevier North Holland
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