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Powerful women: female leadership and gender bias in India
Balsakhi remedial tutoring in Vadodara, India
Discrimination in the job market
Information and social interaction in savings decisions
HIV/AIDS prevention education in primary schools in Kenya
Computer-assisted learning project with Pratham in India
Encouraging teacher attendance through monitoring with cameras in rural Udaipur, India
Flipcharts, school inputs, and retrospective versus prospective analyses in Kenya
Affirmative action in engineering college admissions in India
Interest rates and consumer credit: identifying evidence for moral hazard and adverse selection in microcredit in South Africa
Marketing effects in a consumer credit market in South Africa: pricing the effect of psychological "features" on the take-up of a loan product in a mass mailing marketing campaign
Business education for microcredit clients in Peru
Commitment savings products in the Philippines
Finding missing markets: an agricultural brokerage intervention in Kenya
Group versus individual liability in the Philippines
Valuing trust in shantytowns in Peru
Understanding technology adoption: fertilizer in Western Kenya
Primary school deworming in Kenya
Balwadi deworming in India
Incentives to learn: a merit-based girls' scholarship program in Kenya
Healthcare and health status in Udaipur district, Rajasthan
Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia
Peer effects, alcohol and college roommates
Peer effects, diversity and college roommates
Teacher incentives based on students' test scores in Kenya
Decentralization: a cautionary tale - public finance in Kenya
The Rockefeller effect: looking at organizations of the disadvantaged in Kenya
Textbooks and test scores in Kenya
School meals, educational achievement, and school finance in Kenya
The illusion of sustainability: comparing free provision of deworming drugs and "sustainable" approaches such as cost sharing, health education, and verbal commitments in Kenya
Social learning about health in Kenya
Long-term impacts of vouchers for private schooling in Colombia
Saving incentives for low and middle income families: evidence from a field experiment with H&R Block
Peer effects, pupil-teacher ratios, and teacher incentives in Kenya
Primary education management in Madagascar
Combating corruption in community development in Indonesia
Direct democracy and local public goods in Indonesia
The capability of informational campaigns to raise awareness and local participation in primary education in India
Using encouragement to overcome psychological barriers to saving
The effect of matching ratios on charitable giving
Cooking stoves, indoor air pollution, and respiratory health in India
Interest rates and consumer credit: identifying evidence for moral hazard and adverse selection in microcredit in South Africa
Deposit collectors in the Philippines
Effect of media on voting behavior and political opinions in the U.S.
Expanding credit access: estimating the impacts
Impact of rural banking program on savings, consumption smoothing, and intra-household resource allocation in Kenya
Police performance and public perception in Rajasthan, India
Identifying retail distribution strategies for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in malaria-endemic areas
Identifying retail distribution strategies for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in malaria-endemic areas in Kenya
Counseling the unemployed in France
Responses to degree of control over remittances in El Salvador
Financial innovation and risk management: rainfall insurance
Human capital, financial capital, and the economic empowerment of female adolescents: evidence from a randomized intervention in Uganda and Tanzania
Incentives for nurses in the Indian public healthcare system in Udaipur, India
Teacher performance pay in Andhra Pradesh, India
Urban housing in Ahmedabad, India
Debt traps for micro-entrepreneurs in Chennai, India
Source water quality improvement in Kenya
Estimating the impact of the Hajj: religion and tolerance in Islam's global gathering
Spousal control and intra-household decision making in the Philippines
Estimating the impact - on the lender's bottom line and borrowers' household welfare - of expanding the supply of consumer credit to the working poor in South Africa
Discrimination in the judicial system
Efficiency and rent seeking in local government in India
Ongoing Projects
Campaigns to influence voting behavior in Uttar Pradesh, India
Bank accounts: take-up and impact
Kenya life panel survey
Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India
Community driven development in Sierra Leone
An impact evaluation of microcredit in rural areas of Morocco
Conditional community cash transfers in Indonesia
The demand for and impact of learning HIV status in Malawi
Providing health insurance through microfinance networks in rural Karnataka, India
Debt trap, financial literacy, and savings in Philippines
Measuring the impact of microcredit in the Philippines
Psychological responses to microfinance loan recovery strategies in Peru
CARES commitment savings for smoking cessation in the Philippines
Debt trap, financial literacy, and savings in Philippines
Determinants of delinquency in the Philippines
Emergency savings accounts for remittance receivers in Mexico
The impact of rural credit in Peru
Interest rate sensitivities to micro-loans according to poverty level in Ghana
Interest rate sensitivity among microfinance clients in the Philippines
Interest rate sensitivity among village banking clients in Mexico
Inviting husbands to female solidarity groups in Mexico
Measuring demand for hospitalization insurance in the Philippines
Psychology of savings: evaluation of commitment savings program - FICO Bank, Philippines
Microfinance and health protection initiative, including malaria education, in Benin
Peeling back the layers of group liability in Bolivia
Teacher and student motivation, family participation, and student achievement in rural Udaipur, India
Misclassification in the targeted public distribution system in India
Education information intervention in Sierra Leone
Counseling welfare recipients in France
Counseling scheme for the young and educated unemployed in France
Helping the ultra-poor use microcredit in Murshidabad, India
Household water connections in Tangier, Morocco
Community-based monitoring of primary healthcare providers in Uganda
Participation and accountability in healthcare provision in Uganda
Extending health insurance to the informal sector through microfinance in Nicaragua
Menstruation and education in Nepal
Empowering girls in rural Bangladesh
Microfinance repayment schedules in West Bengal, India
Hope versus fear in health credit marketing in Bolivia
Spanish computer-assisted learning program in Colombia
Small and medium enterprise financing and mentoring services in emerging markets in the Dominican Republic
Awareness campaign for parents of middle school students
Returns to medium and small enterprise management consulting in Ghana
Evaluating an epicenter scale-up strategy in Ghana
Evaluation of a village savings and loans (VSLA) program in Ghana
Group versus individual liability in Ghana
Examining underinvestment in agriculture: returns to capital and insurance among farmers in Ghana
Examining effects of crop price insurance for farmers in Ghana
Savings account labeling and financial literacy training for susu customers in Ghana
Business training for women in Ahmedabad, India
Urban housing in Ahmedabad, India
Village based schools in Afghanistan
Text message reminders and incentives to save in Bolivia
Lock boxes and a bridge to formal banking in Bolivia
Promoting community health in Uganda
Futures prices and risk hedging in Gujarat, India
Financial literacy, access to finance, and the effect of being banked in Indonesia
Targeting the ultra-poor in Ethiopia
Mentoring youth to help guide them professionally
Targeting the ultra-poor (TUP) in Bangladesh
Targeting the ultra-poor (TUP) in rural Honduras
Designing conditional cash transfers in education: Colombia Subsidios Program
Graduating the poorest into microfinance: linking safety nets with financial services on the model of BRAC's TUP program in Pakistan
Supporting youth entrepreneurship in disadvantaged neighborhoods in France
Vocational training for low-skilled, unemployed young people in France
Returns to secondary schooling in Ghana
Willingness and ability to pay for kosim clean water filter in Ghana
Improving immunization rates through regular camps and incentives in Udaipur, India
Reducing anemia through iron fortification of grain in Udaipur, India
Teacher-student ratios and school performance in Udaipur, India
Police in India: performance and public perception, part II
Information, accountability and governance among the urban poor in Delhi, India
Information, accountability and governance among the urban poor in Hyderabad, India
Empowerment of women representatives in India
Read India: helping primary school students in India acquire basic reading and math skills
Extra contract teachers in Andhra Pradesh, India
School block grants in Andhra Pradesh, India
School choice in Andhra Pradesh, India
Computer assisted learning project with Gyan Shala in India
Library program with Akshara Foundation in India
Teacher training program with Gyan Shala in India
How to teach English in India: testing the relative productivity of instruction methods within the Pratham English language education program
Teaching pre-schoolers to read: a randomized evaluation of the Pratham Shishuvachan program in India
Obtaining a drivers license in India: an experimental approach to studying corruption
Improving industrial pollution regulations in India
Health and nutrition education and communication programs' effects on maternal and infant health in Gujarat, India
Flexible repayment schedules for dairy clients in KAS Foundation in Orissa, India
India: does the addition of social objectives to microfinance enhance program impact?
Political mobilization in Delhi slums
Voter awareness media campaign in rural Andhra Pradesh
Effectively targeting anti-poverty programs in Indonesia
Teacher certification and salary increase in Indonesia
Teacher training and professional development in Indonesia
Farmer decision-making and technology experimentation in Indonesia
The impact of distributing school uniforms on children's education in Kenya
HIV/Aids and education in Western Kenya: A biomarker follow-up
Estimating credit constraints among small shopkeepers in Kenya
Limited insurance within the household in Kenya
Vocational education voucher delivery and labor market returns in Kenya
The demand for safe water among mothers of young children in Kenya
Evaluation of the saving for change program in Mali
Mentoring micro-, small, medium enterprises in Puebla, Mexico
Private school incentive program in Pakistan
Interventions aimed at child laborers in the Nepalese carpet industry
School grants and their impact on primary education in Niger
Evaluating the social and economic impact of microcredit on individual borrowers and their communities
Conditional cash transfers for education in Morocco
Targeting the ultra-poor in Peru
Enabling participation of small farmers in inclusive value chains in Peru
Barriers to the demand for condoms in Peru
Credit scoring with the Caja Municipal de Ica in Peru
Interest rate and impact study in rural expansion in Cusco
Amazonas, Peru: Interest rates and client incentives for repayment study in Puno and San Martin
Spousal cosigning requirement as barrier to female access to credit
Health education for microcredit clients in Peru
Psychology of savings: evaluation of commitment savings program - First Valley Bank, Philippines
Impact of microcredit and interest rate sensitivity
Text message loan repayment reminders for micro-borrowers in the Philippines: An effective tool for boosting on-time repayment?
Impact of financial literacy and business training on microfinance clients in the Philippines
The psychology of debt: an experiment in India and the Philippines
Contraceptive adoption, fertility and the family in Zambia
The role of incentives in the distribution of public goods in Zambia
Role of information and radios on political knowledge and participation in Sierra Leone
Micro-savings in primary schools as a means to decrease student drop-out rates in Uganda
Encouraging underserved, intellectually curious children: An evaluation of the Higher Achievement Program in Washington, DC
Mood, time use, and food consumption: time management
Can higher prices stimulate product use? Evidence from a field experiment in Zambia
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Karthik Muralidharan
Ben Olken
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