Funded Projects
Spring 2020 COVID Call
Covid-19 Impact in Cote D’ivoire
Pascaline Dupas, Marcel Fafchamps, Eva Lestant
RAPID: COVID-19 Information Campaigns for Vulnerable Populations
Arun Chandrashekhar, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Benjamin Olken, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Emily Breza
House Calls: Understanding and Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Rural India
Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore, Giorgia Barboni, Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner
Community Detection of COVID-19
Ahmed Mobarak
Cash in a Crisis: Experimental evidence on the impacts of unconditional cash transfers to migrant laborers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fiona Burlig, Anant Sudarshan
Peace Through Prosperity? Evidence from an EconomicOpportunity RCT in the Palestinian West Bank
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Seema Jayachandran, Ariel Zucker
Understanding prevalence of COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare utilization in Peru
Michael Kremer, Brandon Joel Tan
Mitigating the Economic and Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19
Gautam Rao, Frank Schilibach, Kevin Carney, Lisa Ho
COVID-19: Understanding Effects and Resilience in Kenya from a Cash Transfer Experiment
Edward Miguel
Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan
Nick Tsivandidis
Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan
Nick Tsivandidis, Michael Gechter, Nathaniel Young
Spring 2020
Supporting Female Entrepreneurs During a Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
Francesca Truff, Ashley Wong
Do masks work? Experimental evidence on COVID-19 in Kenya
Dennis Egger, Aleksandra Jakubowski, Kennedy Oruenjo, Carolyn Odhiambo
Improving the link between vocation high schools and industry: evaluation of teacher training in Indonesia
Cesar Luis Garro Martin, Masyhur Hilmy
Social Norms and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Knitwear Factories
Laura Boudreau, Oren Renshef, Sakib Mahmood
Quality Upgrading & Competition: Theory & Evidence from Uganda’s Coffee Sector
Jie Bai, Lauren Berquist, Ameet Morjaria
The Efficacy of Classroom Incentives: Experimental evidence from Kenya
Brandon Tan, Ronak Jain
Understanding Demand for Diabetes Testing
Kevin Carney
Monitoring & Evaluation Collaboration with Nigeria’s Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme
Toni Oki
Information Technology and Accountability with Federal Education Funds in Paraguay
Raul Duarte
Can Digital Payments Spur Formalization? Evidence from Small Businesses in Cote d’Ivoire
Deivy Houeix
Discrimination and employment of the mentally ill
Matthew Ridley
Barriers to Intergenerational Flow of School-taught Agricultural Knowledge in Liberia
Jimmy Lee
The Impact of Wealth on Prosociality
Leon Mait, Sara Lowes
Reducing Gender Based Violence in Schools in Mozambique
Maria Sviatschi, Sofia Amaral, Selim Gulesci, Alejandra Ramos, Aixa Garcia Ramos
Improved Public Healthcare and Informal Provider Responses: Evidence from the Health and Wellness Centers in India
Patrick Agte, Jyoti Joshi
E-Procurement and Collusion: Evidence from Ukraine
Leon Musolff, Vitezslav Titl, Bruno Baranek
Algorithms & Credit Outcomes
Faizaan Kisat
Men’s systematic bias and women’s labor market outcomes
Suhani Jalota
Meet Your Future: Job search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
Livia Alfonsi, Sara Spaziani, Mary Namubiru
Measuring Slums Around The World
Nick Tsivanidis, Michael Gechter
Does bringing government closer to people improve well being?
Radhika Goyal, Julianne Cullen, Karthik Muralidharan
Air Pollution, Productivity and Willingness to Pay For Defensive Investments
Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani
Information, Application Strategies and School Choice: Evidence from Vietnam
Hailey Nguyen
Long-run impacts from a new model of primary schooling in Kenya
Michael Kremer
Spillover Effects of Handwashing Behavior in Children
Da Yea Oh
Promoting Regular Labor Supply among the Urban Poor
Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield.
Reparations as Development: Evidence from the Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Arlen Guarin
Labor Market Integration, Growth and Inequality: Evidence from China’s Hukou Reforms
Dennis Egger
IPG 2020
Building A Responsive State: Formal Complaints Technologies, Local Politicians, Public Goods and Policy Design
M.R. Sharan
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Exploratory Fieldwork for Research on Education in Indonesia
Masyhur Hilmy
Interlinked Contracts and Trader Market Power
Garima Sharma
The Impact of Free Bus Travel for Women in Delhi
Gabriel Kreindler, Dev Patel, Girija Borker
Wage Compression and Earnings Inequality
Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, Alejandro Favela Nava, Yogita Shamdasani
The Impact of Free Public Transportation on Women’s Safety and Mobility
Gabriel Kreindler, Dev Patel, Girija Borker
Gifted Classes and Social Exclusion: An Experiment with Brazilian Students
Michela Carlana, Raissa Fabregas, Diana Moreira, Vladamir Ponczek
Spillover Effects of Handwashing Behavior of Children in Bangladesh
Da Yea Oh, Reshmaan Hussam
Classroom Incentives
Brandon Tan, Ronak Jain
Competition and Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods
Shweta Bhogale
The diffusion of online misinformation in India
Jimmy Narang, Ned Augenblick
Mission-driven motivation and incentives in public sector
Muhammad Yasir Khan
The Effects of Land Endowment and Rental Market Formation on Agricultural Efficiency
Wei Lin, Elizabeth Sadoulet
Investigating the role of social learning in health messaging: Evidence on maternal and child health in India
Pooja Suri
Seasonality and Technology Adoption among Marginal Indian Farmers
Luisa Cefala
Identifying Gendered Travel Patterns in Urban Malawi
Tamara Kerzhner
The Long-term General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers
Edward Miguel
Barriers to Take-up of Mental Health Treatment
Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Kevin Carney, Lisa Ho
The Psychosocial Impacts of Forced Idleness in Refugee Camps
Reshmaan Hussam, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra
Leveraging “Big Data” to Empower Jobseekers: An Experiment with an Online Job Portal
Niharika Singh
Breaking up Social Networks: Evidence on Welfare Impacts from the Resettlement of Rohingya Refugees
Louise Paul-Delvaux, Arielle Bernhadt
Managerial vs. Human Capital Training
Isabel MacDonald
Deforestation and the Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia
Allan Hsiao
Interlinked Contracts & Trader Market Power in Agriculture
Garima Sharma
Impact of Male Bureaucratic Culture on Substantive Representation of Women
Bhumi Purohit, Thad Dunning
Optimality and Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Savings Groups
Jedediah Silver, Ethan Ligon
Reducing Yield Gap and Environmental Damage by Helping Smallholders Use Less Fertilizer
Wei Lin, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Ao Wang
Sustained Attention as Human Capital
Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield
Measuring Demand for Groundwater Irrigation: Experimental Evidence from Conservation Payments
Jeremy Magruder, Ariel Zucker, Nick Hagerty
The Economics of Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh
Nina Buchmann, Paula Lopez Pena, Atonu Rabbani
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How Do Environmental Firm Location Policies Affect Workers, Firms, and Environmental Quality?
Namrata Kala
Refugees and Exports in Haiti
Jose Flor Toro, Eduardo Campillo-Betancourt
The Allocation of Medical Professionals
Robert Fletcher
Promoting Infant-Directed Speech in Ghana
Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, Mark Walsh
Social Norms, Technology Adoption, and Team Productivity
Oren Reshef, Laura Boudreau, Sakib Mahmood
Understanding Consumption Seasonality in Zambia
Ned Augenblick, Supreet Kaur
The Difference a Job Makes: Evidence from a Random Procurement Scheme
Matthew Pecenco, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Evidence from India
Anirvan Chowdhury
Violent Crime and Police Recruiting: Evidence from El Salvador
Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, Matthew Pecenco, and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
The Effects of Increasing Public Subsidies to Private Hospitals: Evidence from a Policy Change in Rajasthan, India
Radhika Jain and Pascaline Dupas
The Economic Consequences of Depression
Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Johannes Haushofer, and Vikram Patel
The Value of Non-Work Time for Government Jobseekers in India
Kunal Mangal
Testing Options for Citizen-centric Reconstruction in Nepal
Abraham Holland
Do online platforms make labor markets more inclusive? Evidence from three West African countries
Aicha Ben Dhia and Alicia Marguerie
Information Asymmetries and the Perceived Returns to Migration: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Travis Baseler
Unpacking the Gender Profit Gap: Evidence from Micro-Businesses in India
Odyssia Ng and Solène Delecourt
Entrepreneurs without Enterprises: Organizational Forms of Micro-enterprises
Thiago Scot and Mehmet Seflek
Taxation Toward Representation: Evidence from (Re)starting Municipal Tax Collection and Voter Participation in Haiti
Benjamin Krause and Jeremy Magruder
Geography and Supply Chain Organization: Theory and Evidence from India
Piyush Panigrahi
Development Intervention Forecasting
Nicholas Otis
Behavioral and market determinants of household energy efficiency in a development context
Susanna Berkouwer and Joshua Dean
Consumer valuation of piped water connections
Elizabeth Spink
Evaluation of I-M-POWER Sexual Violence Prevention Program in Kisumu, Kenya
Ashri Anurudran
Affirmative Action, Attitudes and Social Networks: Evidence from Caste-Based Reservation in India
Emily Breza, Arun Chandrasekhar, M. R. Sharan
Bridging the Gap: Improving Grievance Redressal Mechanisms in Rural India
Sharan Mamidipudi, Chinmayaent Kumar
Decentralization and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Healthcare in Indonesia
Allan Hsiao
Graduating the Ultra Poor in Ghana
Chris Udry, Dean Karlan
Unequal Returns to Higher Education
Nano Barahona, Sebastian Otero
Unpacking the Gender Profit Gap: Evidence from Micro-Businesses in India
Solene Delecourt, Odyssia Ng
The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Intergenerational Spillovers of Economic Empowerment
Jeremy Magruder
Incentive and Sorting Effects of Performance Pay
Christina Brown, Tahir Andrabi
Citizen Feedback Loops: Improving Public Service Delivery through Bureaucratic Accountability
Nicholas Kuipers
Taxation Toward Representation: Public Goods Provision, Tax Collection, and Democratic Accountability in Haiti
Benjamin Krause
Social Norms and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories
Oren Reshef, Laura Boudreau, Sakib Mahmood
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Short Run Effects of Guidance and Information for Improved Decistions in Education (GuIIDE)
Kehinde Ajayi
Beyond Free: Measuring Impact of Water Chlorination Free Delivery Strategies
Matthew Basilico
Giving Workers a Voice within the Firm: Evidence from Bangledesh’s Ready-made Garment Sector
Laura Boudreau
Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from India
Lorenzo Casaburi, Bheeshm Chaudhary, Siddharth George, and Jack Willis
Does Education Help Poor Regions Catch Up? Evidence from Brazil
Juan Pablo Chauvin
Incentives for Postnatal Care Demand
Adanna Chukwuma
Hearing Yourself Think: The Impact of Noise on Cognitive Bandwidth and Worker Productivity
Joshua Dean
Behavioral Barriers to Improved Child Nutrition
Katherine Donato
Connecting Rural Households to E-Commerce: Evidence from Taobao’s 100 Thousand Villages Project in China
Benjamin Faber, Victor Couture, Yizen Gu, and Lizhi Liu
Information, Accountability, and Family-school Engagement: An Experimental Evaluation in Manizales, Columbia
Felipe Barrera-Osario and David Deming
Priority Sector Targeting and Structural Transformation in Ethiopia
Mesay Melese Gebresilasse
Peer-Conditional Contracts for Common-Pool Conservation: The Case of Gujarat’s Groundwater
Nick Hagerty and Ariel Zucker
Cream of the Crop: Targeting High Ability Microentrepreneurs
Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth
Demand Side Interventions to Improve the Quality of Health Care in India
Radhika Jain
Social Incentives for Immunization
Anne Karing
Job Matching in Informal Labor Markets (Fall 2016)
Improving Labor Market Outcomes for Disadvantage Workers (Spring 2016)Erin Kelley and Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie
Smart Congestion Pricing: Testing Travel Incentives to Reduce Congestion in Chennai
Gabriel Kreindler
When Do Media Stations Support Electoral Accountability? A Field Experiment in Mexico
Horacio Larreguy, Christopher Lucas, and John Marshall
Diversity and Redisributive Preferences: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Colombia
Juliana Londono-Velez
Inter-Caste Contact and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from India (Fall 2016)
Jobs and Female Empowerment: A Pilot Study in India (Spring 2016)Matt Lowe
Incentivizing Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving: An Experiment with Bus Drivers in Karnataka, India
Janhavi Nilekani
Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile
Dina Pomeranz, Maria Paula Gerardino, and Stephan Litschig
Secret Keeping and Jobs for Women: Experimental Evidence from India
Madeline McKelway, Matt Lowe, and Heather Sarsons
General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers in Kenya
Edward Miguel, Johannes Haushofer, Paul Niehaus
What Makes Individuals Join Armed Organizations? Revenge, Moral sentiments, and Social networks
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
How Do Policymakers Respond to Information from Policy Research?
Gautam Rao, Jonas Hjort, and Diana Moreira
Monitoring Safety of Semi-Formal Public Transport in Tanzania: Commuter Information versus Bus Owner Information
David Schoenholzer
Currency Depreciations, Education Expansion, and Industrial Development: Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector
Alex Segura and Abdullah Alsabah
Utilizing Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda
Zachary Wagner
Incentivizing High-level State Employees to Directly Confront Rural Poverty: a RCT Design Based on a Novel Development Program in China
Shaoda Wang
Tracking Taxes: A Randomized Evaluation of a Government Anti-Corruption Intervention
Jonathan Weigel
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Guidance and Information for Improved Decisions in Education (GuIIDE)
Kehinde Ajayi
Firm Entry Barriers, Growth Constraints, and Job Creation: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Samuel Bazzi
Informing or reminding? Potential strategies to increase compliance rate for CCT program in Indonesia
Clio Dintilhac and Amri Ilmma
The Economic Effects of Sleep Deprivation among the Urban Poor
Gautum Rao, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield
Decentralization and Violence: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Matthew Gudgeon
Access to Savings Account: A Mobile Banking Experiment in the Philippines
Tomoko Harigaya
Testing Rational Addiction: Hand Washing and Habit Formation in West Bengal
Reshmaan Hussam, Giovanni Reggiani, and Natalia Rigol
Externalities and Social Influence in Childhood Immunization
Anne Karing
Bridging the Gap through Local Philanthropy
Carolyne Nekesa Khagondi
Detecting Social Networks with Satellite Imagery to Maximize Impact of Rural Development Initiatives at Mimimal Cost
Jeremy Magruder and Solomon Hsiang
Incentivizing Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving: An Experiment with Bus Drivers in Karnataka, India
Janhavi Nilekani
Impact of Inter-Ethnic Exposure in National Identity: Lessons from the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps
Oyebola Okunogbe
How can Emerging Countries Tax Multinational Firms? Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Chile
Dina Pomeranz, Gabriel Zucman, and Sebastian Bustos
Tackling Governance Challenges in India: Public Services and Electoral Accountability
Sarika Ringwala
Citizen Empowerment and Social Pensions in Delhi
Sarika Ringwala
Impact of an Interactive Mobile Phone Program on Sexual Behavior among Ghanaian Teenage Girls
Slawa Rokicki
Optimizing Antiretroviral Adherence for Adolescents Living with HIV in Rwanda
Manasi Sharma
Craigslist’ for the Rural Poor: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Migration
Niharika Singh
Examining Peer-effects of Water Treatment Practices to Improve Public Health
Maria Steenland
Fixing Broken Windows: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Buenos Aires
Laura Trucco
Milk Safety in China: A Field Experiment
Nancy Wang
Estimating the Impacts of Rural Electrification in Kenya
Catherine Wolfram
The Sociology of Management Adoption
Lisa Xu
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Product Quality, Consumer Learning, and Reputation Building : A Randomized Experiment with Watermelons
Jie Bai
Infrastructure, Capital Inflows, and Productivity in India
Natalie Bau
Windfalls and Work: A Field Experiment of Motivation, Effort, Happiness and Spending in Kenya
Syon Bhanot
Estimating the Demand for Air Pollution Information
Rema Hanna
Pass-through of Quality Premiums to Smallholder Farmers in Gujarat
Sara Hernandez, Reshmann Hussam and Natalia Rigol
How Does an Expressway Change the Mobility and Migration Pattern? Evidence from Cell Phone Transaction Data in Sri Lanka
Yuhei Miyauchi
Impact of Interethnic Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria
Oyebola Olabisi
Risk and Relationships: Ice Retail in the Sierra Leone Fishing Industry
Tristan Reed
Evaluating and Improving the Effectiveness of Right to Public Services Legislation for the Poor in India
Sarika Ringwala
Exploring Vocational Training Partnerships for Rural India
Shayak Sarkar
Alcohol Consumption among the Poor: A Study with Rickshaw Pullers in India
Frank Schilbach
Assessing Profit Maximization: A Lab in the Field Approach
Frank Schilbach and Heather Schofield
Cash or Conditions: Consequences on Cognitive Abilities in Indonesia
Lily Shen and Arthur Bauer
The Burden of Taxation on the Poor in Developing Countries: Evidence from Commodity Taxation in India
Monica Singhal
Effects of Subsidy Rationalization on Low-Income Households and Small Businesses in Malaysia
Gabriel Tourek
Investing Norms on Firm Size and Business Practices in a Retail Cluster in Ghana
Lisa Xu
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Consumer Perceptions and Saving Responses to Information and Bank Reforms
Kehinde Ajayi
Learned Helplessness, Mindfulness, and Job Performance: An Experimental Study in Saudi Arabia
Samura Attalah
School Incentives Program in Punjab, Pakistan
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
The Impacts of Irrigation on Mexican Industrial Development
Melissa Dell
The Effect of Size-Based Regulations on Firms and the Pattern of Development in India
Michael Gechter and Amrit Amirapu
Motivating Community Health Workers: Two Field Experiments on Non-Financial Incentives for Prosocial Tasks
Scott Lee
Political Competition and Bureaucratic Effort
Anusha Nath
Polling Station Officer Identity and Electoral Outcomes in India
Yusuf Neggers
Study on Mhealth and Reproductive Health in Teens
Slawa Rokicki
The Causes and Effects of Improved Health Supply: Evidence from Rwanda
Martin Rotemberg and Jack Willis
Alcohol Consumption Among Rickshaw Peddlers in Chennai: A Study of Poverty, Pain and Self Control
Frank Schilbach
Work Now, Marry Later: Textile Workers in India
Anitha Sivasankaran
Shortening the Hungry Season: The Impact of Shorter Duration Rice on Food Security in Sierra Leone
Tavneet Suri
Citizens’ Complaints and Public Good’s Provision
Laura Trucco