| Do Modern Forms of Human Capital Matter in Primitive Economies? Comparative Evidence from Bolivia1111 |
Feb 2005 |
Economics of Education Review, 24(1), pp. 45-5311 |
Ricardo Godoy, Shanti Rabindran, Tomas Huanca1111 |
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| Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions |
Dec 2005 |
American Economic Review, 95(5), pp. 1688-1699 |
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| Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption |
Jan 2006 |
Book chapter in Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption, edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press |
Alan B. Krueger |
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| Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines. |
May 2006 |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(2), pp. 635-672 |
Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin |
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| Deposit Collectors |
May 2006 |
Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 6(2) Article 5, pp. 1-22 |
Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin |
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| Social Connections and Group Banking |
Feb 2007 |
Economic Journal, 117, pp. F52-F84 |
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| Community Size and Network Closure |
May 2007 |
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 97(2), pp. 80-85 |
Hunt Alcott, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl |
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| Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment |
Dec 2007 |
American Economic Review, 97(5), pp. 1774-1793 |
John A. List |
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| Peer Monitoring and Enforcement: Long Term Evidence from Microcredit Lending Groups With and Without Group Liability |
Jan 2008 |
Subsumed by JDE paper titled "Group versus Individual Liability: Short and Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups" |
Xavier Giné |
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| Lying About Borrowing |
May 2008 |
Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 6(2-3), pp. 510-521 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance |
Jun 2008 |
American Economic Review, 98(3), pp. 1040-1068 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Social and Economic Correlates of Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress in South African Adults |
Jun 2008 |
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62, pp. 538-544 |
Rita Hamad, Lia Fernald, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Candy We Can Believe In: A Halloween Experiment on Trust and Political Symbolism (Halloween 2008) |
Oct 2008 |
working paper |
Treb Allen, Gharad Bryan, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Julian Jamison, Melanie Morten, Scott Nelson, Bram Thuysbaert |
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| To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments |
Dec 2008 |
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(2-3), pp. 477-488 |
Julian Jamison, Laura Schechter |
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| Small Individual Loans and Mental Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial Among South African Adults |
Dec 2008 |
BMC Public Health 8, Article Number: 409 (2008) |
Lia C.H. Fernald, Rita Hamad, Emily J. Ozer, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Get-Out-the-Vote Phone Calls: Does Quality Matter? |
Mar 2009 |
American Politics Research, 37(4), pp. 353-369 |
Shang Ha |
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| Participation in a School Incentive Programme in India |
Mar 2009 |
Journal of Development Studies, 45(3), pp. 369-390 |
Sharon Barnhardt, Stuti Khemani |
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| Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions |
Apr 2009 |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(2), pp. 35-52 |
Alan Gerber, Daniel Bergan |
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| When Curiosity Kills the Profits: An Experimental Examination |
Jul 2009 |
Games and Economic Behavior, 66(2), pp. 830-840 |
Julian Jamison |
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| Trust and Social Collateral |
Aug 2009 |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(3), pp. 1307-1361 |
Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl |
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| Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment |
Nov 2009 |
Econometrica, 77(6), pp. 1993-2008 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya |
Nov 2009 |
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91(4), pp. 973-990 |
Nava Ashraf, Xavier Giné |
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| Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions To Estimate the Impacts |
Nov 2009 |
Review of Financial Studies, 23(1), pp. 433-464 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Microfinance Impact: Bias from Dropouts |
Jan 2010 |
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 9(3), pp. 270-291 |
Gwendolyn Alexander-Tedeschi |
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| Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila |
Jan 2010 |
Subsumed by Science paper titled "Microcredit in Theory and Practice: Using Randomized Credit Scoring for Impact Evaluation" |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment |
Feb 2010 |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), pp. 263-305 |
Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines |
Mar 2010 |
World Development, 38(3), pp. 333-344 |
Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin |
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| Commitment Devices |
Apr 2010 |
Annual Review of Economics, 2, pp. 671-698 |
Gharad Bryan, Scott Nelson |
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| What Capital is Missing in Developing Countries? |
May 2010 |
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 100(2), pp. 629-633 |
Miriam Bruhn, Antoinette Schoar |
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| Microfinance Games |
Jul 2010 |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(3), pp. 60-95 |
Xavier Giné, Pamela Jakiela, Jonathan Morduch |
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| Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation |
Oct 2010 |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2(4), pp. 213-235 |
Xavier Giné, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Health Education for Microcredit Clients in Peru: a Randomized Controlled Trial |
Jan 2011 |
BMC Public Health, 11(51) |
Rita Hamad, Lia Fernald |
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| Crop Price Indemnified Loans for Farmers: A Pilot Experiment in Rural Ghana |
Jan 2011 |
Journal of Risk and Insurance, 78(1), pp. 37-55 |
Ed Kutsoati, Margaret McMillan, Christopher Udry |
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| Being Surveyed Can Change Later Behavior and Related Parameter Estimates |
Feb 2011 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(5), pp. 1821-1826 |
Alix Zwane, Jonathan Zinman, Eric Van Dusen, William Pariente, Clair Null, Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, Richard Hornbeck, Xavier Gine, Esther Duflo, Florencia Devoto, Bruno Crepon, Abhijit Banerjee |
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| Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact Of Business Training On Microfinance Clients and Institutions |
May 2011 |
Review of Economics and Statistics, 93(2), pp. 510-527 |
Martin Valdivia |
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| Small Matches and Charitable Giving: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment |
Jun 2011 |
Journal of Public Economics, 95(5-6), pp. 344-350 |
John A. List, Eldar Shafir |
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| Microcredit in Theory and Practice: Using Randomized Credit Scoring for Impact Evaluation (previously titled "Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila") |
Jun 2011 |
Science, 322(6035), pp. 1278-1284 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| There's Something about Ambiguity (Halloween 2007 & 2008) |
Sep 2011 |
working paper |
Santosh Anagol, Sheree Bennett, Gharad Bryan, Tiffany Davenport, Nancy Hite, Paul Lagunes, Margaret McConnell |
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| Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score |
Jan 2012 |
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 29(1), pp. 96-108 |
Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano |
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| List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds |
May 2012 |
Journal of Development Economics, 98(1), pp. 71-75 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development |
Sep 2012 |
Subsumed by JEBO paper "Consulting and Capital Experiments with Microenterprise Tailors in Ghana" |
Ryan Knight, Christopher Udry |
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| Candy We Still Believe In: Using Halloween to Measure Change in Extensive and Intensive Support for Barack Obama (Halloween 2012) |
Nov 2012 |
working paper |
Jane Bang, Zachary Groff, Sakshi Kumar, Kelsey Larson, Adele Rossouw |
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| Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription |
Jan 2013 |
Economic Inquiry, 51(1), pp. 1002-1011 |
Robert Gazzale, Julian Jamison, Alexander Karlan, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Measuring Personality Traits and Predicting Loan Default with Experiments and Surveys |
Jan 2013 |
Book chapter in Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion, edited by Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp. 393–414 |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Omar Robles |
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| Social Networks, Financial Literacy and Index Insurance |
Jan 2013 |
World Bank working paper |
Xavier Giné, Muthoni Ngatia |
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| Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali |
May 2013 |
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 103(3), pp. 381-386 |
Lori Beaman, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry |
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| Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda |
May 2013 |
Information Technologies & International Development, 9(3), pp. 1-28 |
Julian Jamison, Pia Raffler |
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| Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco |
May 2013 |
Subsumed by AEJ-AE paper titled "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" |
Manuela Angelucci, Jonathan Zinman |
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| (Ineffective) Messages to Encourage Recycling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Peru |
Aug 2013 |
World Bank Economic Review, 29(1), pp. 180-206 |
Alberto Chong, Jeremy Shapiro, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda |
Feb 2014 |
Review of Income and Wealth, 60(1), pp. 36-78J |
Aishwarya Ratan, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints |
Feb 2014 |
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(2), pp. 597-652 |
Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Christopher Udry |
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| Group versus Individual Liability: Short and Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups |
Mar 2014 |
Journal of Development Economics, 107(C), pp. 65-83 |
Xavier Giné |
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| Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs |
May 2014 |
subsumed by REStat paper "Five-year impacts of group-based financial education and savings promotion" |
Julian Jamison, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Bank-insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages |
Jul 2014 |
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 103 supplement, pp. S56-S73 |
Mahmoud ElGamal, Mohamed ElKomi, Adam Osman |
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| Candy Under Constraints (Halloween 2013) |
Aug 2014 |
working paper |
Jodi Beggs, Michael Sanders |
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| Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving |
Oct 2014 |
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 106, pp. 402-412 |
Margaret A. McConnell |
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| Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali |
Oct 2014 |
working paper |
Lori Beaman, Bram Thuysbaert |
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| Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification |
Dec 2014 |
Journal of Politics, 77(1), pp. 55-71 |
Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O, Leonard Wantchekon |
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| Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps |
Jan 2015 |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(1), pp. 1-21 |
Abhijit Banerjee, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco |
Jan 2015 |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(1), pp. 151-182 |
Manuela Angelucci, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training |
May 2015 |
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 7(2), pp. 125-161 |
Robert Fairlie, Jonathan Zinman |
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| The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth |
May 2015 |
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 105(5), pp. 295-299 |
Greg Fischer |
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| A Multi-faceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence from Six Countries |
May 2015 |
Science, 348(6236), pp. 1260799-1 - 1260799-16 |
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nathanael Goldberg, Robert Osei, William Pariente, Jeremy Shapiro, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry |
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| Promoting an Open Research Culture: Author Guidelines for Journals Could Help to Promote Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility |
Jun 2015 |
Science, 348(6242), pp. 1422-1425 |
B. A. Nosek, et al. |
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| Measuring Trust in Peruvian Shantytowns |
Jul 2015 |
working paper |
Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, Adam Szeidl |
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| Referrals: Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment |
Aug 2015 |
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(3), pp. 174-204 |
Gharad Bryan, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Consulting and Capital Experiments with Microenterprise Tailors in Ghana (previously titled "Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development") |
Oct 2015 |
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118, pp. 281–302 |
Ryan Knight, Christopher Udry |
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| a personal touch in text messaging can improve microloan repayment |
Jan 2016 |
Behavioral Science and Policy, 1(2), pp. 31-39 |
Melanie Morten, Jonathan Zinman |
|
| Candy Elasticity: Halloween Experiments on Public Political Statements (Halloween 2008 & 2012) |
Jan 2016 |
Economic Inquiry, 54(1), pp. 543-547 |
Julian Jamison |
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| Follow the Money not the Cash: Comparing Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock |
Jul 2016 |
Journal of Development Economics, 121, pp.11-23 |
Adam Osman, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru |
Aug 2016 |
World Bank Economic Review, 33(1), pp. 63-94 |
Bram Thuysbaert |
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| Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving |
Dec 2016 |
Management Science, 62(12), pp. 3393-3411 |
Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Designing Social Protection Programs: Using Theory and Experimentation to Understand how to Help Combat Poverty |
Jan 2017 |
Handbook of Field Experiments, Volume 2 Chapter 7 pp. 515-553 |
Rema Hanna |
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| The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment |
Feb 2017 |
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 66, pp. 1-8 |
Dan Wood |
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| Credit with Health Education in Benin: a Cluster Randomized Trial Examining Impacts on Knowledge and Behavior |
Feb 2017 |
American Journal of Tropical Health and Hygiene, 96(2), pp. 501-510 |
Bram Thuysbaert, Bobbi Gray |
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| Impact of Savings Groups on the Lives of the Poor |
Mar 2017 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 114(12), pp. 3079-3084 |
Beniamino Savonitto, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry |
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| Overcoming Behavioral Obstacles to Escaping Poverty |
May 2017 |
Behavioral Science & Policy, 3(1), pp. 81-91 |
Christopher J. Bryan, Nina Mazar, Julian Jamison, Jeanine Braithwaite, Nadine Dechausay, Alissa Fishbane, Elizabeth Fox, Varun Gauri, Rachel Glennerster, Johannes Haushofer, Renos Vakis |
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| Survivor: Three Principles of Economics Taught by a Reality Television Show |
May 2017 |
Journal of Economic Education, 48(3), pp. 224-228 |
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| Challenges to Replication and Iteration in Field Experiments: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Shots |
May 2017 |
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 107(5), pp. 462-465 |
Jake Bowers, Nathaniel Higgins, Sarah Tulman, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism? |
Jul 2017 |
Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, 65(4), pp. 583-618 |
Santosh Anagol, Alvin Etang |
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| Price and Control Elasticities of Demand for Savings |
Jan 2018 |
Journal of Development Economics, 130(C), pp.145-159 |
Jonthan Zinman |
|
| The Effect of Images of Michelle Obama’s Face on Trick-or-Treaters’ Dietary Choices: A Randomized Control Trial (Halloween 2012, 2014 & 2015) |
Jan 2018 |
PLOS ONE, 13(1): e0189693 |
Peter M. Aronow, Lauren E. Pinson |
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| The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana |
Feb 2018 |
World Development 102, pp. 71-89 |
James Berry, Menno Pradhan |
|
| Intuitive Donating: Testing One-Line Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment |
Feb 2018 |
Book chapter in The Economics of Philanthropy, edited by Tonin Mirco and Kimberly Scharf, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press |
Samantha Horn |
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| The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico |
Mar 2018 |
Journal of Political Economy, 126(2), pp. 635-687 |
Miriam Bruhn, Antoinette Schoar |
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| Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries |
Apr 2018 |
American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 10(2), pp. 257-297 |
Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson, Diego Ubfal |
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| Unshrouding: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey |
Apr 2018 |
Journal of Finance, 73(2), pp. 481-522 |
Sule Alan, Mehmet Cemalcilar, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines |
Jun 2018 |
American Economic Review: Insights 1(1), pp. 27-42 |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Benjamin N. Roth |
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| Short-term Subsidies and Seller Type: A Health Products Experiment in Uganda |
Aug 2018 |
Journal of Development Economics, 137, pp.110-124 |
Greg Fischer, Maggie McConnell, Pia Raffler |
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| Unconditional cash transfers for clinical and economic outcomes among HIV-affected Ugandan households |
Sep 2018 |
AIDS, 32(14), pp. 2023-2031 |
Edward J. Mills, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Pamela Jakiela, Josephine Birungi, Stephen Okoboi, Teddy Nabwire W. Chimulwa, Jonathan Wanganisi, Tina Achilla, Evan Popoff, Shirin Golchi |
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| Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico |
Jul 2019 |
Review of Economic Studies, 86(4), pp. 1704–1746 |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Good Identification, Meet Good Data |
Dec 2019 |
World Development, 127, 104796, pp. 1-3 |
Andrew Dillon, Christopher Udry, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Blue Porches: Finding the Limits of External Validity of the Endowment Effect |
Apr 2020 |
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 176, pp. 269-271 |
Gharad Bryan, Matthew Grant, Kareem Haggag,
Dean Karlan, Meredith Startz and Christopher Udry |
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| Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World: Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment |
May 2020 |
World Bank Economic Review, pp. 1-22 |
Adam Osman, Nour Shammout |
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| Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia (previously titled "Effectiveness and Spillovers of Online Sex Education: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombian Public Schools") |
Jun 2020 |
The World Bank Economic Review, Vol 34(2), pp. 371-392 |
Alberto Chong, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Martin Valdivia |
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| Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes |
Jun 2020 |
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 136, Issue 1, pp. 293-380 |
Gharad Bryan, James J. Choi |
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| How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods |
Nov 2020 |
Journal of Public Economics, Vol 191 (104296) |
John A. List |
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| Consumer protection for financial inclusion in low and middle income countries: Bridging regulator and academic perspectives |
Dec 2020 |
Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol 13, pp. 219-246 |
Seth Garz, Xavier Giné, Rafe Mazer, Caitlin Sanford, and Jonathan Zinman |
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| Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries |
Feb 2021 |
Science Advances, 7: eabe0997 |
Egger et al. |
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| Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen |
Mar 2021 |
Journal of Development Economics, Vol 155, (102780) |
Lasse Brune, Sikandra Kurdi, Christopher Udry |
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| Evaluation of a Combined Financial Incentives and Deposit Contract Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
Mar 2021 |
Journal of Smoking Cessation, vol 2021, Article ID (6612505) |
Daren Anderson, Samantha Horn, Amanda Kowalski, Jody Sindelar and Jonathan Zinman |
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| A Mega-Study of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor’s Appointment |
May 2021 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 114(12), pp. 3079-3084 |
Milkman et al. |
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| A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers |
Jun 2021 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) |
Edward Asiedu, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Christopher Udry |
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| COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low and Middle Income Countries, and Implications for Messaging |
Jun 2021 |
Nature Medicine, 27, pp. 1385-1394 |
Solís et al. |
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| Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags |
Nov 2025 |
working paper |
Abhijit Banerjee, Hannah Trachtman, Christopher Udry |
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| Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets |
Oct 2021 |
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (Wiley) Special Issue, pp.510-522 |
Adam Osman, Jonathan Zinman |
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| A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit |
Oct 2021 |
American Journal of Health Promotion, Vol. 37, Issue 3, pp. 324-332 |
Patel et al. |
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| Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor |
Dec 2021 |
Journal of Development Economics, Vol 155, (102781) |
Abhijit Banerjee, Robert Osei, Hannah Trachtman, Christopher Udry |
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| Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society |
Dec 2021 |
working paper |
Ricardo Godoy and Jonathan Zinman |
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| A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies |
Dec 2021 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol 119, No.6 e2115126119 |
Milkman et al. |
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| Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioral Science |
Dec 2021 |
Nature, Vol. 600, p478–483 |
Milkman et al. |
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| Cooperation in the commons: Evaluating investment in community-based rangeland management in Namibia |
Feb 2022 |
Nature - Communications Earth & Environment 3 (32) |
D. Layne Coppock, Lucas Crowley, Susan L. Durham, Dylan Groves, Julian C. Jamison, Brien E. Norton, R. Douglas Ramsey |
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| Machine Learning and Phone Data Can Improve Targeting of Humanitarian Aid |
Mar 2022 |
Nature, Vol. 603, pp. 864-870 |
Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Christopher Udry, and Joshua Blumenstock |
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| Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints Opens Pathways out of Poverty (previously titled "Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger") |
Apr 2022 |
Nature, Vol. 605, p291–297 |
Thomas Bossuroy, Markus Goldstein, Bassirou Karimou, Harounan Kazianga, William Parienté, Patrick Premand, Catherine Thomas, Christopher Udry, Julia Vaillant, and Kelsey Wright |
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| Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana |
Jul 2025 |
Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming |
Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth, and Christopher Udry |
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| Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India |
Sep 2024 |
working paper |
Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Matt Lowe, and Benjamin N. Roth |
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| Credit Building or Credit Crumbling? A Credit Builder Loan's Effects on Consumer Behavior, Credit Scores and Their Predictive Power |
Sep 2022 |
Review of Financial Studies, Vol 36, Issue 4, pp. 1585-1620 |
Jeremy Burke, Julian Jamison, Kata Mihaly, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Passing the message: Peer outreach about COVID-19 precautions in Zambia (previously titled "Replication and Adaptation of Incentivized Peer Outreach: From Tuberculosis in India to COVID-19 in Zambia") |
Oct 2024 |
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 171, 103318 |
Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Jessica Goldberg, Melissa Graboyes, Peter Hangoma, Mario Macis, and Silvia Prina |
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| Give Me a Pass: Flexible Credit for Entreprenuers in Colombia |
Oct 2025 |
Economic Journal, forthcoming |
Lasse Brune and Xavier Giné |
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| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Among Ghana’s Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress |
Dec 2022 |
American Economic Review: Insights, Vol 4, No 4, pp. 527-545 |
Nathan Barker, Gharad Bryan, Angela Ofori-Atta, and Christopher Udry |
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| Improving Smallholder Agriculture via Video-Based Group Extension |
Jun 2024 |
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 169, 103267 |
Tushi Baul, Kentaro Toyama, and Kathryn Vasilaky |
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| Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda |
May 2025 |
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 174, 103444 |
Leigh L. Linden |
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| How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana |
Sep 2023 |
World Development, Vol.169, 106296 |
Kate Baldwin, Christopher Udry, Ernest Appiah |
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| Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali |
Oct 2023 |
Econometrica, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp1595–1627 |
Lori Beaman, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry |
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| The Fading Treatment Effects of a Multi-Faceted Asset-Transfer Program in Ethiopia |
Jun 2024 |
American Economic Review: Insights, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 277–94 |
Nathan Barker, Christopher Udry, Kelsey Wright |
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| Smiles in Profiles: Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces |
Jan 2025 |
working paper |
Susan Athey, Emil Palikot, Yuan Yuan |
|
| Five-year impacts of group-based financial education and savings promotion for Ugandan youth (formerly titled "Does lasting behavior change require knowledge change? Evidence from savings interventions for young adults") |
Apr 2023 |
Review of Economics and Statistics |
Samantha Horn, Julian Jamison, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment |
Sep 2024 |
American Economic Review, Vol. 114, No. 9, pp. 2825–60 |
Gharad Bryan and Adam Osman |
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| Estimating Impact with Surveys versus Digital Traces: Evidence from Randomized Cash Transfers in Togo |
Jun 2025 |
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 175, 103477 |
Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Joshua Blumenstock, Christopher Udry |
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| Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries |
Apr 2025 |
working paper |
Tommaso Crosta, Finley Ong, Julius Rüschenpöhler, Christopher Udry |
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| Introduction to the Journal of Development Economics Special Issue on Methods and Measurement |
Sep 2024 |
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 170, 103303 |
Kathleen Beegle, Andrew Dillon, Christopher Udry |
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| Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines |
Aug 2025 |
working paper |
Noam Angrist, Sarah Kabay, Lincoln Lau, Kevin Wong |
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| Access to Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ghana |
Jan 2026 |
Journal of Development Economics |
Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Utsav Manjeer, Christopher Udry |
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| Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the U.S. and Ghana |
Aug 2025 |
Management Science |
Erika L. Kirgios, Susan Athey, Angela L. Duckworth, Michael Luca, Katherine L. Milkman, Molly Offer-Westort |
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| Group versus Individual Coaching for Rural Social Protection Programs: Evidence from Uganda, Philippines, and Bangladesh |
Jan 2026 |
American Economic Review: Insights, conditionally accepted |
Beam, Brune, Das, Dercon, Goldberg, Haque, Khan, Parkerson, Pople, Sawada, Udry, Zizzamia |
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| Profits and Social Impacts: Complements vs Tradeoffs for Lenders in Three Countries |
Dec 2025 |
working paper |
Susan Athey, Bruno Fava, Adam Osman, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Great Expectations: Responses to Current and Future Transfers for Low-Income Individuals |
Feb 2026 |
working paper |
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-Francois Gauthier, Pamela Jakiela |
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| Esther Duflo |
Jul 2025 |
The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics, Chapter 41, pp 865-885 |
Chris Udry |
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| Microfinance Impact Assessments: The Perils of Using New Members as a Control Group |
Nov 2001 |
Journal of Microfinance |
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| A Review of Commitment Savings Products in Developing Countries |
May 2003 |
Asian Development Bank Economics and Research Development Working Paper |
Nava Ashraf, Nathalie Gons, Wesley Yin |
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| Testing Savings Product Innovations Using an Experimental Methodology |
Nov 2003 |
Asian Development Bank Technical Note Series, 8 |
Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin |
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| Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Control Trials: An Example from Group versus Individual Lending |
Mar 2006 |
Asian Development Bank Economics and Research Department Technical Note Series, 16 |
Xavier Giné, Tomoko Harigaya, Binh Nguyen |
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| Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Controlled Trials: Examples from Business Training and Group versus Individual Liability |
Jul 2006 |
Prepared for the 2006 Microcredit Summit |
Tomoko Harigaya, Sara Nadel |
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| Optimizing Loan Contracting and Marketing Stategies Using Field Experimentation |
Nov 2006 |
prepared for the 2006 Microcredit Summit |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Microentrepreneurs and Their Money: Three Anomalies |
Mar 2007 |
unpublished paper |
Bindu Ananth, Sendhil Mullainathan |
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| In Defense of Usury |
Nov 2007 |
Wall Street Journal |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Is Microfinance Too Rigid? |
Dec 2007 |
VoxEU |
Sendhil Mullainathan |
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| Microlending Needs Bigger Ideas |
May 2008 |
Marketplace on National Public Radio |
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| The Value of Inconvenience |
Mar 2009 |
Alliance Magazine |
Chona Echavez |
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| How Government Can Guide Small Borrowers |
Apr 2009 |
Financial Times |
Jonathan Zinman |
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| Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials For Evaluation of Development |
Jun 2009 |
Journal of Development Effectiveness, 1(3) |
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| Cross Sectional Impact Analysis: Bias from Dropouts |
Aug 2009 |
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology microfinance special issue |
Gwendolyn Alexander-Tedeschi |
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| Does Ad Content Affect Consumer Demand? |
Sep 2009 |
Alliance Magazine |
Manfred Kuhn, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Strength in Numbers |
Sep 2009 |
Microfinance Insights |
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| Crossfire: Randomized Control Trials are the Best Way to Measure Impact of Microfinance Programs and Improve Microfinance Product Designs |
Sep 2009 |
Enterprise Development and Microfinance, 20(3), pp. 167-176 |
Nathanael Goldberg |
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| Committed to Savings: Using Behavioral Economics to Motivate Members |
Sep 2009 |
Filene Research Institute, (194) |
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| Do Matching Grants Really Work? |
Dec 2009 |
Alliance Magazine |
Kareem Haggag |
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| Survival of the Deviant |
Sep 2010 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
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| Help Microfinance, Don't Kill It. |
Nov 2010 |
The Indian Express |
Abhijit Banerjee, Pranab Bardhan, Esther Duflo, Erica Field, Asim Khwaja, Dilip Mookherjee, Rohini Pande, Raghuram Rajan |
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| Helping the Poor Save More |
Dec 2010 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
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| Microcredit is Not the Enemy |
Dec 2010 |
Financial Times |
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erica Field, Asim Khwaja, Dilip Mookherjee, Rohini Pande, Raghuram Rajan |
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| Microfinance Works, Even Without a Hollywood Ending |
May 2011 |
The Christian Science Monitor |
Jacob Appel |
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| You Can't Always Get What You Want |
May 2011 |
Foreign Policy |
Jacob Appel |
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| Microfinance Evaluation Strategies: Notes on Methodology and Findings |
Jun 2011 |
The Handbook of Microfinance |
Nathanael Goldberg, edited by Beatriz Armendariz and Marc Labie |
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| Training to Save? |
May 2012 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Annie Duflo |
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| Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow? |
Jun 2012 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Annie Duflo |
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| Evaluate (Response to Toyama's article) |
Jun 2012 |
Boston Review |
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| Development Controversy a Sign of Sophistication |
Aug 2012 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Caroline Fiennes |
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| Changing Savings Habits |
Sep 2012 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Annie Duflo |
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| Candy We Still Believe In: A Halloween Experiment |
Nov 2012 |
Freakonomics |
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| Every Which Way We Can |
Dec 2012 |
Finance and Development |
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| Charitable Giving: Why Fewer Is More |
Dec 2012 |
Freakonomics |
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| An Economist’s Guide to Year-End Charitable Giving |
Dec 2012 |
Freakonomics |
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| Your Own Private Fiscal Cliff (Gated) |
Jan 2013 |
Wall Street Journal |
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| What Can We Learn From Congress and African Farmers About Losing Weight? |
Jan 2013 |
Freakonomics |
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| Now Hiring |
Mar 2013 |
Freakonomics |
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| To Test or Not to Test |
Apr 2013 |
Freakonomics |
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| The Millennium Ethical Fallacy: Why Ignore Future Children? |
Sep 2013 |
Freakonomics |
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| Charity “Shoppers” vs. Charity Investors |
Dec 2013 |
Freakonomics |
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| Innovation, Inclusion and Trust: The Role of Nonprofits in Microfinance |
Jan 2014 |
PLAN International white paper |
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| Measuring Impact Isn't for Everyone |
Apr 2014 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Mary Kay Gugerty |
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| Why You Should Root for Nigeria (or Brazil, Mexico or Ghana) |
Jun 2014 |
New York Times |
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| The Next Stage of Financial Inclusion |
Sep 2014 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
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| Here's How to Determine if That Charity is Worth Your Dollars |
Dec 2014 |
Los Angeles Times |
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| The Best Ways to Give (Gated) |
Dec 2014 |
Project Syndicate |
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| New Data Reveals Which Approach to Helping the Poor Actually Works |
Jun 2015 |
Reuters |
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| The Way to Help the Poor |
Oct 2015 |
Scientific American |
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| Testimony of Professor Dean Karlan Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services |
Oct 2015 |
Congressional Record, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services |
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| Will Setting Goals End Hunger? What’s Next for the SDGs… |
Dec 2015 |
Council on Foreign Relations |
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| What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty |
Jan 2016 |
New York Times |
Annie Duflo |
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| Five Questions with Dean Karlan |
Feb 2016 |
Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Making Microfinance More Effective |
Oct 2016 |
Harvard Business Review |
Rebecca Mann, Jake Kendall, Rohini Pande, Tavneet Suri, Jonathan Zinman |
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| Cash as Capital (Gated) |
Jun 2017 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Chris Blattman, Michael Faye, Paul Niehaus, Chris Udry |
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| How can we help extremely poor people earn more money? |
May 2018 |
Science Journal for Teens |
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| Ten Reasons Not to Measure Impact-and What to Do Instead. |
Jun 2018 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Mary Kay Gugerty |
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| Behavioral Economics and Donor Nudges: Impulse or Deliberation |
Jan 2019 |
Stanford Social Innovation Review |
Tantia Piyush, Sarah Welch |
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| Can Banks Play a Role in Improving Resilience to Climate Change? |
Jun 2019 |
International Banker |
Rebecca Rouse, Laura Burke |
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| How to practice social distancing while helping the economy |
Mar 2020 |
Washington Post |
Susan Athey |
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| Hard Data for Hard Choices |
Jun 2020 |
Project Syndicate |
Alison Fahey, Nathanael Goldberg |
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| Why You Shouldn’t Ask a Charity How It Spends Your Donation |
Nov 2020 |
Wall Street Journal |
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| Engagement Requires Contrast |
Dec 2020 |
The NonProfit Times |
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| A theory and evidence test for strategic international aid |
Mar 2025 |
The Hill |
Ted Yoho |
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| USAID Position Paper on Cost-Effectiveness |
Oct 2024 |
USAID Position Paper |
Team from the Office of the Chief Economist |
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| USAID Position Paper on Direct Monetary Transfers (aka Unconditional Cash Transfers) |
Oct 2024 |
USAID Position Paper |
Team from the Office of the Chief Economist |
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| In a Blank Space of rural finance, new platforms quietly entered,
Fearless farmers invest when digital credit is carefully tailored.
But Out of the Woods we are not — lending seems best when swift,
So Shake It Off, Begin Again: more innovation would be a gift. |
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Access to Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers: Experimental Evidence from Ghana |
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| Machine learning predicts
Yet surveys reveal the truth
Cash transfers’ true worth |
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Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo |
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| Tethered funds restrain.
Yet weaker bonds free the mind—.
Learning finds its path.
And we learn that AI converts abstract to haiku-highlights quite well. |
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Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda |
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| Poverty implies.
freedom to decide, to dream.
To decide to dream.
For highlights beyond this 5-7-5 haiku, please read on. |
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Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension |
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| We study a multi-faceted program to alleviate poverty.
Please see abstract.
Summary of key results there. |
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Unpacking a multi-faceted program to build sustainable income for the very poor |
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