Papers
The following is a list of recent papers. For a complete list and earlier papers, please see the cv.
Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
June 2008
Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer
Putting a Band-Aid on Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System
May 2008
Abhijit Banerjee and Rachel Glennerster
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
May 2008
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
How High are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya
May 2008 forthcoming
Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson
Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
August 2008
Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani
Indoor Air Pollution, Heatlh and Economic Well-being
February 2008
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna
Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
2008
Michael Kremer
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
2008
Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova
Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
September 2007
Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer
What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?
December 2007
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
August 2007
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
January 2007
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Tim Watts
Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
December 2006
Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer
Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
November 2007
Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan
The Economic Lives of the Poor
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
October 2006, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol 21, No. 1, Winter 2007, pgs 141-167.
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
August 2007
Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
November 2006
Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag and Emmanuel Saez
Field Experiments in Development Economics
Esther Duflo
January 2006
Gender Equality in Development
Esther Duflo
December 2005
Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
December 2005, Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 1, Part A, pgs 473-552.
Dams
Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande
July 2005
Addressing Absence
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
May 2005
Why Political Reservations
Esther Duflo
May 2005, Journal of the European Economic Association 3(2-3), pp.668-678
Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India
Esther Duflo and Petia Topalova
October 2004
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
September 2004, Econometrica 72(5): pp.1409-1443
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee
August 2004
Banking Reform in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole and E. Duflo
June 2004
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
E. Duflo, A. Banerjee and A. Deaton
May 2004, AER Papers and Proceedings 94(2)
Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan
E. Duflo, A. Banerjee and A. Deaton
February 2004, (2-28-04) Economic and Political Weekly, pp.944-949
The Impact of Reservation in the Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment
E. Duflo and R. Chattopadhyay
February 2004, (2-28-04) Economic and Political Weekly, pp.979-986
Scaling Up and Evaluation
Esther Duflo
January 2004, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004: Accelerating Development, Vol. 1, Report No. 30228
Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
E. Duflo and M. Kremer
July 2003
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
Esther Duflo and Christopher Udry
June 2003
Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
June 2003, Revised
How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?
Esther Duflo, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand
June 2003, Revised
Poor but Rational?
E. Duflo
January 2003
The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Esther Duflo and Emmanuel Saez
January 2003
A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth: Comment
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
December 2002
The (mis)allocation of capital
Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Kaivan Munshi
September 2002
The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter less than Mothers?
E. Duflo and L. Breierova
March 2002
Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa
Esther Duflo
November 2000
The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia
Esther Duflo
October 2000
Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
May 2000
Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
January 2000
Indian Software Industry Questionnaire
Esther Duflo
2000
Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program
AEA Meeting