Fighting Poverty: What Works?

Issue 1: Education: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals

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Briefcase 5: Controlling Corruption: Auditing versus Community Participation

Briefcase 4: Mass Deworming: A Best-Buy for Education and Health

Briefcase 3: Cheap and Effective Ways to Change Adolescents’ Sexual Behavior

Briefcase 2: Education for Marginalized Children

Briefcase 1: Women's Public Policy

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J-PAL News Update No. 2 - July 2007

J-PAL News Update No. 1 - April 2007

Working Papers
Repayment Frequency and Default in Micro-Finance: Evidence from India
Erica Field, Rohini Pande.
April, 2008
Are educational vouchers only distributive?
Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer, Juan Saavedra.
March, 2008
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin.
March, 2008
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?
Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova.
February, 2008
Indoor Air Polution, Health and Economic well-being
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna.
February, 2008
Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna, Stephen Ryan.
February, 2008
Peer Monitoring and Enforcement: Long Term Evidence from Microcredit
Xavier Gine (World Bank), Dean Karlan.
January, 2008
Indoor air pollution, health and economic well-being (Institut Veolia Environement)
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna.
January, 2008
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine (World Bank), Dean Karlan.
January, 2008
Incentives to Learn
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Rebecca Thornton.
January, 2008
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman.
January, 2008
Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna.
December, 2007
An Impact Evaluation of the Provision of Health Insurance Through Microfinance Networks in Rural India
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo.
December, 2007
Relative Risks and the Market for Sex:Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya
Pascaline Dupas.
October, 2007
Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment in Kenya
Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas.
October, 2007
The Demand for and Impact of Learning HIV Status
Rebecca Thornton.
October, 2007
Peer effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer.
September, 2007
Gender, Intrahousehold Decisionmaking, and the Demand for Children
Nava Ashraf, Erica Field, Jean Lee.
August, 2007
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin.
July, 2007
"Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda," Community-Based Monitoring of Primary Health Care PCEPR Working Paper # 6344
Martina Bjorkman, Jakob Svensson.
June, 2007
Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Ben Olken.
April, 2007
Political Institutions and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Ben Olken.
February, 2007
Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia
Nava Ashraf, James Berry, Jesse M. Shapiro.
January, 2007
Empathy or Antipathy? The Impact of Diversity
Johanne Boisjoly, Greg Duncan, Jacque Eccles, Michael Kremer, Dan Levy.
January, 2007
Does The Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions
Daniel Bergan, Alan Gerber, Dean Karlan.
December, 2006
Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman.
December, 2006
Relative Risks and the Market for Sex:Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya∗
Pascaline Dupas.
October, 2006
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo, Leigh Linden.
October, 2006
Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Western Kenya
Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer, Samuel Sinei.
October, 2006
Observing Unobservables
Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman.
June, 2006
Household Decision Making and Savings Impacts:
Dean Karlan.
May, 2006
Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin.
May, 2006
Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiement
Dean Karlan, John List.
April, 2006
Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia (GRADE-Peru).
April, 2006
Deposit Collectors
Dean Karlan.
January, 2006
Addressing Absence
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo.
January, 2006
Deposit Collectors
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin.
November, 2005
Growing Export Oriented Crops in Kenya:An Evaluation of DrumNet Services
Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine (World Bank), Dean Karlan.
December, 2005
Whats Psychology Worth?
Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jonathan Zinman.
October, 2005
Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students
Michael Kremer, Dan Levy.
June, 2005
Saving Incentives for Low and Middle Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H & R Block
Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, Emmanuel Saez.
May, 2005
Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India
Esther Duflo, Petia Topalova.
October, 2004
Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India
Esther Duflo.
October, 2004
Why Political Reservations?
Esther Duflo.
September, 2004
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo.
September, 2004
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo.
September, 2004
Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin, Eric Zitzewitz.
June, 2004
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo.
May, 2004
Why Political Reservations?
Esther Duflo.
April, 2004
Iron Deficiency Anemia and School Participation
Gustavo Bobonis, Edward Miguel, Charu Sharma.
March, 2004
Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan
Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Esther Duflo.
February, 2004
The Rockefeller Effect
Mary Kay Gugerty, Michael Kremer.
January, 2004
The Illusion of Sustainability
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel.
January, 2004
Networks, Social Learning, and Technology Adoption: The Case of Deworming Drugs in Kenya
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel.
January, 2004
Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia
Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Michael Kremer.
January, 2004
The Impact of Reservation in the Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo.
November, 2003
The Impact of Reservation in the Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo.
November, 2003
Computer-Assisted Learning: Evidence from A Randomized Experiment
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Leigh Linden.
October, 2003
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?
Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan.
May, 2003
Teacher Incentives
Paul Glewwe, Nauman Ilias, Michael Kremer.
May, 2003
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale
Michael Kremer, Sylvie Moulin, Robert Namunyu.
January, 2003
The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Esther Duflo, Emmanuel Saez.
January, 2003
Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment
Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, Michael Kremer.
December, 2002
Worms: Identifying Impacts on Health and Education in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel.
September, 2001

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