Papers

The following is a list of recent papers. For a complete list and earlier papers, please see the cv.

Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
May 2009
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

Marry for What? Caste and Selection in Modern India
2009
with Abhijit Banerjee, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
May 2009
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

Nudging Farmers to Utilize Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
June 2009
with Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson

The Experimental Approach to Development
September 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education In India
August 2008
wtih Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
July 2008
with Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Rohini Pande
and Petia Topalova

Mandated Empowerment
June 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee

Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
June 2008
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

How High are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya
May 2008
with Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
May 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee

Indoor Air Pollution, Heatlh and Economic Well-being
February 2008
with Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna

Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
2008
with Michael Kremer

Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
September 2007
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
December 2007
with Abhijit Banerjee

Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
August 2007
with Abhijit Banerjee

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
January 2007
with Abhijit Banerjee, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Tim Watts

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
December 2006
with Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
November 2007
with Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan

The Economic Lives of the Poor
October 2006
with Abhijit Banerjee

Updated Table (March 17, 2008) for Economic Lives of the Poor and What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
with Abhijit Banerjee

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
August 2007
with A. Banerjee, S. Cole and L. Linden

Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
November 2006
with William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag and Emmanuel Saez

Field Experiments in Development Economics
January 2006
Esther Duflo

Gender Equality in Development
December 2005
Esther Duflo

Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics
December 2005
with Abhijit Banerjee

Dams
July 2005
with Rohini Pande

Addressing Absence
May 2005
with Abhijit Banerjee

Why Political Reservations
May 2005
Esther Duflo

Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India
October 2004
with Petia Topalova

 

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
September 2004
with Raghabendra Chattopadhyay

Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
August 2004
with Abhijit V. Banerjee

Banking Reform in India
June 2004
with Abhijit Banerjee and Shawn Cole

Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
May 2004
with Abhijit Banerjee and Angus Deaton

Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan
February 2004
with Abhjit Banerjee and Angus Deaton

The Impact of Reservation in the Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment
February 2004
wtih R. Chattopadhyay

Scaling Up and Evaluation
January 2004
Esther Duflo

Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
July 2003
with Michael Kremer

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
June 2003
with Christopher Udry

Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?
June 2003, Revised
with Abhijit Banerjee

How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?
June 2003, Revised
with Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand

Poor but Rational?
January 2003
Esther Duflo

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
January 2003
with Emmanuel Saez

A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth: Comment
December 2002
with Abhijit Banerjee

The (mis)allocation of capital
September 2002
with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Kaivan Munshi

The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter less than Mothers?
March 2002
with L. Breierova

Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa
November 2000
Esther Duflo

The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia
October 2000
Esther Duflo

Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
May 2000
Esther Duflo

Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
March 2000
Esther Duflo

Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry
January 2000
with Abhijit Banerjee

Indian Software Industry Questionnaire
Esther Duflo
2000

Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program
AEA Meeting