Full Research Articles
Course Text: “The Effect of an Integrated Multisector Model for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Improving Child Survival in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Non-Randomised Controlled Assessment”
This article has been assigned as required reading for Program Evaluation, a spring elective at the CDE.
Read MoreCourse Text: “Methods of Household Consumption Measurement through Surveys: Experimental Results from Tanzania”
This article has been assigned as required reading in the CDE spring elective, Program Evaluation.
Read MoreOptional Reading: “The Power of Survey Design”
This text has been recommended as optional reading for the CDE spring elective, Program Evaluation.
Read MoreProf. Ashraf recommends: “Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming”
In this article, Owen Ozier of the World Bank examines the difficulty of reproducing the results of seminal experiments through the example of the debate around mass deworming interventions.
Read MoreArticle: “Corruption, Norms and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets”
This clever study by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel explored how “culture” affected whether or not diplomats from other countries obeyed parking rules in Manhattan.
Read MoreArticle: “Poverty and Witch Killing”
In this study, Edward Miguel analyzes the relationship between witch killings and extreme weather that particularly affects the livelihoods of the poor in Tanzania. What he finds suggests that witch killings might be related to the desperation people feel when things go wrong.
Read MoreFull Article: “Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?”
In this study, a group of female researchers explores what happens to norms around women when women take on leadership positions in their communities.
Read MoreFull Article: “Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India”
In this study, Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay compare how women spend and how men spend when they’re in positions of leadership in India.
Read MoreFull Article: “Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya”
In this experiment, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Jonathan Robinson investigate why it is that farmers in Kenya don’t use as much fertilizer as they could. They find that small inconveniences might be making a large difference.
Read MoreRequired Reading: “The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”
This article from Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster and Kinnan adds to the evidence of the sometimes underwhelming effects of microcredit as a way to get people out of poverty. It has been assigned as required reading in the Program Evaluation course, one of the spring CDE electives.
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