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Finance
Bank Credit and Business Networks
Asim Khwaja (with Atif Mian and Abid Qamar)
Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper, 2011
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
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, 2010
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance (Online Appendix)
Rohini Pande (with Ben Feigenberg and Erica Field)
Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
Dan Levy (with Jim Ohls)
Journal of Development Effectiveness 2(4): 421-441, 2010
Rent Seeking and Corruption in Financial Markets
Asim Khwaja (with Atif Mian)
Annual Review of Economics 3(1): 579-600, 2011
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, 2012
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, 2008
Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers
Asim Khwaja (with Rajkamal Iyer, Erzo Luttmer, and Kelly Shue)
Working paper, 2013
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from an Emerging Market
Asim Khwaja (with Atif Mian)
American Economic Review 98(4): 1413-1442, 2008
Livelihoods
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, 2010
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, 2009
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
Rema Hanna (with Sendhil Mullainathan and Josh Schwartstein)
CID Working Paper #245, 2012
Governance
Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities?
Asim Khwaja
Journal of Public Economics 93(7): 899-916, 2009
Can Informed Voters Enforce Better Governance? Experiments in Low Income Democracies
Rohini Pande
Annual Review of Economics 3(1): 215-237, 2011
Corruption
Rema Hanna (with Abhijit Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Handbook of Organizational Economics, R. Gibbons & J. Roberts (Eds.), Princeton University Press, 2012
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, 2013
Corruption in Developing Countries
Rohini Pande (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
Rohini Pande (with Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, and Petia Topolava)
Science 335(6068): 582-586, 2012
Informal Taxation (Appendices)
Monica Singhal (with Benjamin A. Olken)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(4): 1-28, 2011
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, 2012
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, 2007
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, 2012
Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
Rohini Pande (with Abhijit Banerjee)
Faculty Research Working Papers Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2009
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, 2009
Propaganda and Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
David Yanagizawa-Drott
Working paper, 2012
The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period
Monica Singhal (with Katherine Baicker and Jeffrey Clemens)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
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, 2008
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, 2009
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, 2012
Understanding Political Corruption in Low Income Countries
Rohini Pande
Handbook of Development Economics, Vol 4, T. Schultz & J. Strauss (Eds.), Elsevier North Holland, 2007
Health & Environment
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2010
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, 2011
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Rema Hanna (with Michael Greenstone)
CID Working Paper #224, NBER Working Paper #17210, 2011
The Impact of Inspections on Plant-Level Air Emissions
Rema Hanna (with Paulina Oliva)
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 10(1), 2010
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, 2011
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, 2012
Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
Amitabh Chandra (with Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight)
American Economic Review 100(1): 193-213, 2010
Patient Cost-Sharing in Low Income Populations
Amitabh Chandra (with Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight)
American Economic Review 100(2): 303-308, 2010
Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students
Dan Levy (with Michael Kremer)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(3): 189-206, 2008
The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
Amitabh Chandra (with Anupam Jena and Jonathan Skinner)
Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(2): 27-46, 2011
Productivity Spillovers in Healthcare: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks
Amitabh Chandra (with Douglas Staiger)
Journal of Political Economy 115: 103-140, 2007
Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of U.S. Health Care Spending
Amitabh Chandra (with Katherine Baicker and Jonathan Skinner)
Annual Review of Economics 4(1): 33-56, 2012
Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Healthcare
Amitabh Chandra (with Jonathan Skinner)
Journal of Economic Literature 50(3): 645-680, 2012
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, 2010
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, 2012
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, 2012
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), May 2013
Education
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, 2008
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, 2010
Discrimination in Grading
Rema Hanna (with Leigh Linden)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(4): 146-168, 2012
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, 2011
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Rema Hanna (with Esther Duflo and Stephen Ryan)
American Economic Review, 102(4): 1241-1278, 2012
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, 2008
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, 2009
Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow: Identifying Constraints on the Provision of Education
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming
What Did You Do All Day? Maternal Education and Child Outcomes
Asim Khwaja (with Tahir Andrabi and Jishnu Das)
Journal of Human Resources 47(4): 873-912, 2012
Other
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, 2007
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, 2011
Dams
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo)
Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(2): 601-646, 2007
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, 2009
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, 2012
Toward Closing the Evaluation Gap: Lessons from Three Recent Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dan Levy (with Lorenzo Moreno, Larissa Campuzano, and Randall Blair)
Well-being and Social Policy 5(2): 1-23, 2009
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