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Asim Khwaja | Amitabh Chandra | Rema Hanna | Dan Levy
Ryan Sheely | Monica Singhal | David Yanagizawa-Drott
Rohini Pande
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India (Online Appendix)
(with Erica Field, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol)
American Economic Review, forthcoming
What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-party Auditors
(with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
American Economic Review, 103(3), May 2013
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance (Online Appendix)
(with Ben Feigenberg and Erica Field)
Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
Corruption in Developing Countries
(with Benjamin A. Olken)
Annual Review of Economics, 4: 479-509, 2012
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India
(with Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topolava)
Science 335(6068): 582-586, 2012
Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India
(with Timothy Besley and Vijayendra Rao)
World Bank Economic Review 26(2): 191-216, 2012
Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India
(with Erica Field, John Papp, and Y. Jeanette Park)
PLoS ONE 7(9): e45679, 2012
Truth-Telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India
(with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
Working paper, 2012
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low Income Democracies
Annual Review of Economics 3(1): 215-237, 2011
Improving Human Health Through a Market-Friendly Emissions Scheme
(with Michael Greenstone, Aparna Krishnan, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan)
Seminar Volume for International Seminar on Global Environment and Disaster Management: Law and Society, 2011
Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship? A Field Experiment on Business Training in India
(with Erica Field and Seema Jayachandran)
American Economic Review 100(2): 125-129, 2010
Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India
(with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan)
Discussion Paper, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, 2010
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
(with Abhijit Banerjee)
Faculty Research Working Papers Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2009
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? (Online Appendix)
(with Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topalova)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(4): 1497-1540, 2009
Repayment Frequency and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from India
(with Erica Field)
Journal of the European Economic Association 6(2-3): 501-509, 2008
Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
(with Erica Field, Matthew Levinson, and Sujata Visaria)
American Economic Review 98(2): 505-510, 2008
Coordinating Development: Can Income-based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria? (Appendix containing omitted results)
(with Philip Bond)
Journal of Development Economics 83(2): 368-391, 2007
Dams
(with Esther Duflo)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(2): 601-646, 2007
Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries
Handbook of Development Economics, Vol 4, T. Schultz & J. Strauss (Eds.), Elsevier North Holland, 2007
Asim Khwaja
Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers
(with Rajkamal Iyer, Erzo Luttmer, and Kelly Shue)
Working paper, 2013
Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow: Identifying Constraints on the Provision of Education
(with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
What Did You Do All Day? Maternal Education and Child Outcomes
(with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Journal of Human Resources 47(4): 873-912, 2012
Bank Credit and Business Networks
(with Atif Mian and Abid Qamar)
Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper, 2011
Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics
(with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Tristan Zajonc)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(3): 29-54, 2011
Rent Seeking and Corruption in Financial Markets
(with Atif Mian)
Annual Review of Economics 3(1): 579-600, 2011
Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Nor Any Dime to Lend: Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity
(with Atif Mian and Bilal Zia)
Review of Financial Studies 23(12): 4281-4323, 2010
Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities?
Journal of Public Economics 93(7): 899-916, 2009
The Impact of the Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering
(with David Clingingsmith and Michael Kremer)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 124(3): 1133-1170, 2009
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
(with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
BREAD Working Paper, 2009
A Dime a Day: The Possibilities and Limits of Private Schooling in Pakistan
(with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Comparative Education Review 52(3): 329-355, 2008
Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools (LEAPS): Insights to Inform the Education Policy Debate
(with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Tara Vishwanath, and Tristan Zajonc)
Forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
(with Atif Mian)
American Economic Review 98(4): 1413-1442, 2008
Amitabh Chandra
Markers and Drivers: Cardiovascular Health of Middle Age and Older Indians
(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, 2012
Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of U.S. Health Care Spending
(with Katherine Baicker and Jonathan Skinner)
Annual Review of Economics 4(1): 33-56, 2012
Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Healthcare
(with Jonathan Skinner)
Journal of Economic Literature 50(3): 645-680, 2012
The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
(with Anupam Jena and Jonathan Skinner)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(2): 27-46, 2011
Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
(with Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight)
American Economic Review 100(1): 193-213, 2010
Patient Cost-Sharing in Low Income Populations
(with Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight)
American Economic Review 100(2): 303-308, 2010
Productivity Spillovers in Healthcare: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks
(with Douglas Staiger)
Journal of Political Economy 115: 103-140, 2007
Rema Hanna
Does Elite Capture Matter: Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
(with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi)
CID Working Paper #255, 2013
Corruption
(with Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Handbook of Organizational Economics, R. Gibbons & J. Roberts (Eds.), Princeton University Press, 2012
Discrimination in Grading
(with Leigh Linden)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(4): 146-168, 2012
Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
(with Eva Arceo and Paulina Olivia)
CID Working Paper #244, NBER Working Paper #18349, 2012
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
(with Esther Duflo and Stephen Ryan)
American Economic Review, 102(4): 1241-1278, 2012
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
(with Sendhil Mullainathan and Josh Schwartstein)
CID Working Paper #245, 2012
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
(with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Benjamin A. Olken)
CID Working Paper # 246, 2012
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
(with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi)
CID Working Paper #254, 2012
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
(with Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin A. Olken, and Julia Tobias)
American Economic Review 102(4): 1206-1240, 2012
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
(with Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone)
CID Working Paper #241, NBER Working Paper #18033, 2012
The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Mexico City
(with Paulina Oliva)
CID Working Paper #225, NBER Working Paper #17302, 2011
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
(with Michael Greenstone)
CID Working Paper #224, NBER Working Paper #17210, 2011
Affirmative Action: Evidence from College Admissions in India
(with Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Journal of Public Economics 94(1-2): 16-29, 2010
The Impact of Inspections on Plant-Level Air Emissions
(with Paulina Oliva)
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1), 2010
Obtaining a Driving License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption
(with Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(4): 1639-1676, 2007
Dan Levy
Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
(with Jim Ohls)
Journal of Development Effectiveness 2(4): 421-441, 2010
Toward Closing the Evaluation Gap: Lessons from Three Recent Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
(with Lorenzo Moreno, Larissa Campuzano, and Randall Blair)
Well-being and Social Policy 5(2): 1-23, 2009
Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students
(with Michael Kremer)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(3): 189-206, 2008
Ryan Sheely
Agent-Based Modeling of the Effects of Social Norms on Enrollment in Payments for Ecosystem Services
(with Xiaodong Chen, Frank Lupi, Li An, Andrés Viña, and Jianguo Liu)
Ecological Modeling 229: 16-24, 2012
Monica Singhal
The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period
(with Katherine Baicker and Jeffrey Clemens)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution (Online Appendix)
(with Erzo F.P. Luttmer)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3(1): 157-179, 2011
Informal Taxation (Appendices)
(with Benjamin A. Olken)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(4): 1-28, 2011
Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India (Online Appendix)
(with David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, and Tom Vogl)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(2): 72-94, 2010
David Yanagizawa-Drott
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda
(with Martina Björkman-Nyqvist and Jakob Svensson)
CID Working Paper #242, 2012
Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
Working paper, 2012
Getting Prices Right: The Impact of the Market Information Service in Uganda
(with Jakob Svensson)
Journal of the European Economic Association 7(2-3): 435-445, 2009
Social Capital vs. Institutions in the Growth Process
(with Pelle Ahlerup and Ola Olsson)
European Journal of Political Economy 25(1): 1-14, 2009
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