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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Development, Applied Micro

   > Health

   > Education

   > Savings

AFFILIATIONS

■  Affiliate, BREAD

■  Faculty Research Fellow, NBER

■  Research Affiliate, CEPR

■  Affiliate, J-PAL

■  Affiliate, IPA

■  Affiliate, CEGA

> WORKING PAPERS

■    School Governance, Teacher Incentives and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (with E. Duflo and M. Kremer)

      [PDF] March 2012. NBER Working Paper #17939.

      (Previously circulated as "Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" and various other titles...)

■    Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment (with Jessica Cohen and Simone Schaner)

      [PDF] March 2012. NBER Working Paper #17943.

■   Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      [PDF] Revised February 2012.

■    Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees

      [PDF] Revised March 2012. Prepared for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics

■    Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Revised February 2012; NBER Working Paper #17255.

■    Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer)

      [PDF] August 2011.

> PUBLICATIONS

■    Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Forthcoming, AEJ: Applied Economics

■    Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province (with Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Forthcoming, NBER Africa Project Conference Volume

■    The (Hidden) Costs of Political Instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics 

■    Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco (with Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, William Pariente and Vincent Pons)

      [PDF]  Forthcoming, AEJ: Economic Policy

■   Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints (with Debopam Bhattacharya)

      [PDF] Journal of Econometrics 167(1), pp. 168-196, March 2012.

■    Health Behavior in Developing Countries

      [PDF]  Annual Review of Economics Vol. 3, pp. 425-449, September 2011.

■    Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer)

      [PDF] [Web Appendix]  American Economic Review 101(5), pp. 1739-74, August 2011.

■    Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

      [PDF]   AEJ: Applied Economics 3 (1), pp.1-36, January 2011.

      (Previously circulated as "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar  Daddies, and HIV in Kenya")

■   Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya�s 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF]  American Economic Review P&P 100(2):120-124, May 2010.

■   Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment (with Jessica Cohen)

      [PDF]  [Web Appendix] Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), pp.1-45, February 2010.

■   What matters (and what does not) in households' decision to invest in malaria prevention?

      [PDF]  American Economic Review P&P  99(2): 224-230, May 2009.

> OLD STUFF

■   The Impact of Conditional In-Kind Subsidies on Preventative Health Behaviors: Evidence from Kenya

      [PDF]  July 2005

■  Comparing the Paths of the Unemployed in France and the United States (with Daniel Cohen)

      [PDF]  (in French)  Economie et Statistique, 2000, vol. 332-333, pp.17-26.