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A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence from six Countries

scientific article published in May 2015

Addressing Absence

scientific article published on January 2006

Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

scientific article published in December 2007

Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates

scientific article

Bundling Health Insurance and Microfinance in India: There Cannot be Adverse Selection if There is No Demand

scientific article

Can Iron-Fortified Salt Control Anemia? Evidence from Two Experiments in Rural Bihar

scientific article published in March 2016

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

scientific article published in October 2019

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

scientific article published in January 2021

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

scientific article

Cognitive science in the field: A preschool intervention durably enhances intuitive but not formal mathematics

scientific article published in July 2017

Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities : A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

scientific article published in December 2012

Double/Debiased Machine Learning for Treatment and Structural Parameters

scientific article published in July 2017

E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

scientific article published in November 2016

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

scientific article

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

scientific article published in December 2014

End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 11 March 2022

Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty

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Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco

scientific article published in May 2014

Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India

scientific article published on January 12, 2012

Field Experiments on Discrimination

scientific article published in February 2016

Field Experiments on Discrimination a aLaura Stilwell and Jan Zilinsky provided excellent research assistance. We thank Abhijit Banerjee for comments. We are particularly grateful to Betsy Levy Paluck, our discussant, for her detailed and thoughtful

scientific article published in 2017

From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application

scientific article published in December 2016

Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments, with an Application to Immunization in India

scientific article published in June 2018

Good Economics for Hard Times

2019 non-fiction book by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

scientific article published in August 2014

Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa

scientific article published in December 2000

Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old-Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa

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HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan

scientific article published on May 2004

HIV prevention among youth: A randomized controlled trial of voluntary counseling and testing for HIV and male condom distribution in rural Kenya

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

scientific article published in April 2011

How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?

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How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?

scholarly article published March 2002

How Much do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance

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How Much do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance

scientific article published in September 2014

Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India: Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy and Training

scientific article published in March 2012

Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives

scientific article

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics

scientific article published in April 2020

Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?

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Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?

scientific article published in July 2000

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

scientific article published in May 2004

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France

scientific article published in February 2007

Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

scientific article published in November 2020

Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India

scientific article published in October 2016

Mandated empowerment: handing antipoverty policy back to the poor?

scientific article published in January 2008

Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

scholarly article published May 2009

Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

article by Abhijit Banerjee et al published May 2013 in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities

scientific article published in July 2020

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

scholarly article published December 2005

Movies, Margins and Marketing: Encouraging the Adoption of Iron-Fortified Salt

scientific article published in October 2015

NAITRE study on the impact of conditional cash transfer on poor pregnancy outcomes in underprivileged women: protocol for a nationwide pragmatic cluster-randomised superiority clinical trial in France

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

scientific article published in March 2012

PUTTING A BAND-AID ON A CORPSE: INCENTIVES FOR NURSES IN THE INDIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

scientific article

Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices

scientific article published in June 2000

Participation and investment decisions in a retirement plan: the influence of colleagues’ choices

academic journal article

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

scientific article published in November 2008

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

scientific article published in September 2008

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

scientific article published in 2008

Poor Economics

2011 non-fiction book by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Poor economics

2012 reprint with a different subtitle

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

scientific article published in July 2008

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?*

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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

scientific article published in December 2005

Rigorous Evaluation of Human Behavior

scientific article published on June 15, 2012

Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

scientific article published in October 2005

School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

scientific article published in March 2012

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

scholarly article published August 2000

The Diffusion of Microfinance

scientific article

The Diffusion of Microfinance

scientific article published in January 2012

The Economic Lives of the Poor

scientific article published on January 2007

The Economist as Plumber

scientific article published in March 2017

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India

scientific article published in September 2019

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

scientific article published in November 2008

The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter Less Than Mothers?

scientific article published in May 2004

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

scholarly article published January 2002

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

scientific article published in May 2013

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

scientific article published in April 2002

The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

scientific article published in October 2014

Toilets Can Work: Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation

scientific article published in September 2015

Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India

scientific article published in July 2013

Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education

scientific article published in July 2013

Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action

scientific article published in January 2014

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

scientific article published in May 2012

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

scientific article published in December 2006

What is middle class about the middle classes around the world?

scientific article published on January 2008

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

scientific article published in 2012

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a India-Wide Randomized Policy Experiment

scholarly article published December 2001

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

scientific article published in December 2011