Spring 2020 COVID Call

Covid-19 Impact in Cote D’ivoire

Pascaline Dupas, Marcel Fafchamps, Eva Lestant

RAPID: COVID-19 Information Campaigns for Vulnerable Populations

Arun Chandrashekhar, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Benjamin Olken, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Emily Breza

House Calls: Understanding and Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Rural India

Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore, Giorgia Barboni, Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner

Community Detection of COVID-19

Ahmed Mobarak

Cash in a Crisis: Experimental evidence on the impacts of unconditional cash transfers to migrant laborers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fiona Burlig, Anant Sudarshan

Peace Through Prosperity? Evidence from an EconomicOpportunity RCT in the Palestinian West Bank

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Seema Jayachandran, Ariel Zucker

Understanding prevalence of COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare utilization in Peru

Michael Kremer, Brandon Joel Tan

Mitigating the Economic and Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19

Gautam Rao, Frank Schilibach, Kevin Carney, Lisa Ho

COVID-19: Understanding Effects and Resilience in Kenya from a Cash Transfer Experiment

Edward Miguel

Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan

Nick Tsivandidis

Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan

Nick Tsivandidis, Michael Gechter, Nathaniel Young


Spring 2020

Supporting Female Entrepreneurs During a Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Francesca Truff, Ashley Wong

Do masks work? Experimental evidence on COVID-19 in Kenya

Dennis Egger, Aleksandra Jakubowski, Kennedy Oruenjo, Carolyn Odhiambo

Improving the link between vocation high schools and industry: evaluation of teacher training in Indonesia

Cesar Luis Garro Martin, Masyhur Hilmy 

Social Norms and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Knitwear Factories

Laura Boudreau, Oren Renshef, Sakib Mahmood

Quality Upgrading & Competition: Theory & Evidence from Uganda’s Coffee Sector

Jie Bai, Lauren Berquist, Ameet Morjaria

The Efficacy of Classroom Incentives: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Brandon Tan, Ronak Jain

Understanding Demand for Diabetes Testing

Kevin Carney

Monitoring & Evaluation Collaboration with Nigeria’s Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme

Toni Oki

Information Technology and Accountability with Federal Education Funds in Paraguay

Raul Duarte

Can Digital Payments Spur Formalization? Evidence from Small Businesses in Cote d’Ivoire

Deivy Houeix

Discrimination and employment of the mentally ill

Matthew Ridley

Barriers to Intergenerational Flow of School-taught Agricultural Knowledge in Liberia

Jimmy Lee

The Impact of Wealth on Prosociality

Leon Mait, Sara Lowes

Reducing Gender Based Violence in Schools in Mozambique

Maria Sviatschi, Sofia Amaral, Selim Gulesci, Alejandra Ramos, Aixa Garcia Ramos

Improved Public Healthcare and Informal Provider Responses: Evidence from the Health and Wellness Centers in India

Patrick Agte, Jyoti Joshi

E-Procurement and Collusion: Evidence from Ukraine

Leon Musolff, Vitezslav Titl, Bruno Baranek

Algorithms & Credit Outcomes

Faizaan Kisat

Men’s systematic bias and women’s labor market outcomes

Suhani Jalota

Meet Your Future: Job search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers

Livia Alfonsi, Sara Spaziani, Mary Namubiru

Measuring Slums Around The World

Nick Tsivanidis, Michael Gechter

Does bringing government closer to people improve well being?

Radhika Goyal, Julianne Cullen, Karthik Muralidharan

Air Pollution, Productivity and Willingness to Pay For Defensive Investments

Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani

Information, Application Strategies and School Choice: Evidence from Vietnam

Hailey Nguyen

Long-run impacts from a new model of primary schooling in Kenya

Michael Kremer

Spillover Effects of Handwashing Behavior in Children

Da Yea Oh

Promoting Regular Labor Supply among the Urban Poor

Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield.

Reparations as Development: Evidence from the Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Arlen Guarin

Labor Market Integration, Growth and Inequality: Evidence from China’s Hukou Reforms

Dennis Egger


IPG 2020

Building A Responsive State: Formal Complaints Technologies, Local Politicians, Public Goods and Policy Design

M.R. Sharan

 

Spring 2020 COVID Call

Covid-19 Impact in Cote D’ivoire

Pascaline Dupas, Marcel Fafchamps, Eva Lestant

RAPID: COVID-19 Information Campaigns for Vulnerable Populations

Arun Chandrashekhar, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Benjamin Olken, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Emily Breza

House Calls: Understanding and Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Rural India

Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore, Giorgia Barboni, Erica Field, Natalia Rigol, Simone Schaner

Community Detection of COVID-19

Ahmed Mobarak

Cash in a Crisis: Experimental evidence on the impacts of unconditional cash transfers to migrant laborers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fiona Burlig, Anant Sudarshan

Peace Through Prosperity? Evidence from an EconomicOpportunity RCT in the Palestinian West Bank

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Seema Jayachandran, Ariel Zucker

Understanding prevalence of COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare utilization in Peru

Michael Kremer, Brandon Joel Tan

Mitigating the Economic and Mental Health Impacts of Covid-19

Gautam Rao, Frank Schilibach, Kevin Carney, Lisa Ho

COVID-19: Understanding Effects and Resilience in Kenya from a Cash Transfer Experiment

Edward Miguel

Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan

Nick Tsivandidis

Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Vulnerable Populations: Evidence from Jordan

Nick Tsivandidis, Michael Gechter, Nathaniel Young


Spring 2020

Supporting Female Entrepreneurs During a Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana

Francesca Truff, Ashley Wong

Do masks work? Experimental evidence on COVID-19 in Kenya

Dennis Egger, Aleksandra Jakubowski, Kennedy Oruenjo, Carolyn Odhiambo

Improving the link between vocation high schools and industry: evaluation of teacher training in Indonesia

Cesar Luis Garro Martin, Masyhur Hilmy 

Social Norms and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Knitwear Factories

Laura Boudreau, Oren Renshef, Sakib Mahmood

Quality Upgrading & Competition: Theory & Evidence from Uganda’s Coffee Sector

Jie Bai, Lauren Berquist, Ameet Morjaria

The Efficacy of Classroom Incentives: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Brandon Tan, Ronak Jain

Understanding Demand for Diabetes Testing

Kevin Carney

Monitoring & Evaluation Collaboration with Nigeria’s Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme

Toni Oki

Information Technology and Accountability with Federal Education Funds in Paraguay

Raul Duarte

Can Digital Payments Spur Formalization? Evidence from Small Businesses in Cote d’Ivoire

Deivy Houeix

Discrimination and employment of the mentally ill

Matthew Ridley

Barriers to Intergenerational Flow of School-taught Agricultural Knowledge in Liberia

Jimmy Lee

The Impact of Wealth on Prosociality

Leon Mait, Sara Lowes

Reducing Gender Based Violence in Schools in Mozambique

Maria Sviatschi, Sofia Amaral, Selim Gulesci, Alejandra Ramos, Aixa Garcia Ramos

Improved Public Healthcare and Informal Provider Responses: Evidence from the Health and Wellness Centers in India

Patrick Agte, Jyoti Joshi

E-Procurement and Collusion: Evidence from Ukraine

Leon Musolff, Vitezslav Titl, Bruno Baranek

Algorithms & Credit Outcomes

Faizaan Kisat

Men’s systematic bias and women’s labor market outcomes

Suhani Jalota

Meet Your Future: Job search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers

Livia Alfonsi, Sara Spaziani, Mary Namubiru

Measuring Slums Around The World

Nick Tsivanidis, Michael Gechter

Does bringing government closer to people improve well being?

Radhika Goyal, Julianne Cullen, Karthik Muralidharan

Air Pollution, Productivity and Willingness to Pay For Defensive Investments

Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani

Information, Application Strategies and School Choice: Evidence from Vietnam

Hailey Nguyen

Long-run impacts from a new model of primary schooling in Kenya

Michael Kremer

Spillover Effects of Handwashing Behavior in Children

Da Yea Oh

Promoting Regular Labor Supply among the Urban Poor

Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield.

Reparations as Development: Evidence from the Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Arlen Guarin

Labor Market Integration, Growth and Inequality: Evidence from China’s Hukou Reforms

Dennis Egger


IPG 2020

Building A Responsive State: Formal Complaints Technologies, Local Politicians, Public Goods and Policy Design

M.R. Sharan

 

Exploratory Fieldwork for Research on Education in Indonesia

Masyhur Hilmy

Interlinked Contracts and Trader Market Power

Garima Sharma

The Impact of Free Bus Travel for Women in Delhi

Gabriel Kreindler, Dev Patel, Girija Borker

Wage Compression and Earnings Inequality

Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, Alejandro Favela Nava, Yogita Shamdasani

The Impact of Free Public Transportation on Women’s Safety and Mobility

Gabriel Kreindler, Dev Patel, Girija Borker

Gifted Classes and Social Exclusion: An Experiment with Brazilian Students

Michela Carlana, Raissa Fabregas, Diana Moreira, Vladamir Ponczek

Spillover Effects of Handwashing Behavior of Children in Bangladesh

Da Yea Oh, Reshmaan Hussam

Classroom Incentives

Brandon Tan, Ronak Jain

Competition and Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods

Shweta Bhogale 

The diffusion of online misinformation in India

Jimmy Narang, Ned Augenblick

Mission-driven motivation and incentives in public sector

Muhammad Yasir Khan

The Effects of Land Endowment and Rental Market Formation on Agricultural Efficiency

Wei Lin, Elizabeth Sadoulet

Investigating the role of social learning in health messaging: Evidence on maternal and child health in India

Pooja Suri

Seasonality and Technology Adoption among Marginal Indian Farmers

Luisa Cefala

Identifying Gendered Travel Patterns in Urban Malawi

Tamara Kerzhner

The Long-term General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers

Edward Miguel

Barriers to Take-up of Mental Health Treatment

Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Kevin Carney, Lisa Ho

The Psychosocial Impacts of Forced Idleness in Refugee Camps

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Fatima Zahra

Leveraging “Big Data” to Empower Jobseekers: An Experiment with an Online Job Portal

Niharika Singh

Breaking up Social Networks: Evidence on Welfare Impacts from the Resettlement of Rohingya Refugees

Louise Paul-Delvaux, Arielle Bernhadt

Managerial vs. Human Capital Training

Isabel MacDonald

Deforestation and the Palm Oil Industry in Indonesia

Allan Hsiao

Interlinked Contracts & Trader Market Power in Agriculture

Garima Sharma

Impact of Male Bureaucratic Culture on Substantive Representation of Women

Bhumi Purohit, Thad Dunning

Optimality and Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Savings Groups

Jedediah Silver, Ethan Ligon

Reducing Yield Gap and Environmental Damage by Helping Smallholders Use Less Fertilizer

Wei Lin, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Ao Wang

Sustained Attention as Human Capital

Supreet Kaur, Heather Schofield

Measuring Demand for Groundwater Irrigation: Experimental Evidence from Conservation Payments

Jeremy Magruder, Ariel Zucker, Nick Hagerty

The Economics of Domestic Violence: Evidence from Bangladesh

Nina Buchmann, Paula Lopez Pena, Atonu Rabbani

How Do Environmental Firm Location Policies Affect Workers, Firms, and Environmental Quality?

Namrata Kala

Refugees and Exports in Haiti

Jose Flor Toro, Eduardo Campillo-Betancourt

The Allocation of Medical Professionals

Robert Fletcher

Promoting Infant-Directed Speech in Ghana

Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, Mark Walsh

Social Norms, Technology Adoption, and Team Productivity

Oren Reshef, Laura Boudreau, Sakib Mahmood

Understanding Consumption Seasonality in Zambia

Ned Augenblick, Supreet Kaur

The Difference a Job Makes: Evidence from a Random Procurement Scheme

Matthew Pecenco, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla

Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Evidence from India

Anirvan Chowdhury

Violent Crime and Police Recruiting: Evidence from El Salvador

Manuel Melendez-Sanchez, Matthew Pecenco, and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla

The Effects of Increasing Public Subsidies to Private Hospitals: Evidence from a Policy Change in Rajasthan, India

Radhika Jain and Pascaline Dupas

The Economic Consequences of Depression

Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Johannes Haushofer, and Vikram Patel

The Value of Non-Work Time for Government Jobseekers in India

Kunal Mangal

Testing Options for Citizen-centric Reconstruction in Nepal

Abraham Holland

Do online platforms make labor markets more inclusive? Evidence from three West African countries

Aicha Ben Dhia and Alicia Marguerie

Information Asymmetries and the Perceived Returns to Migration: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Travis Baseler

Unpacking the Gender Profit Gap: Evidence from Micro-Businesses in India

Odyssia Ng and Solène Delecourt

Entrepreneurs without Enterprises: Organizational Forms of Micro-enterprises

Thiago Scot and Mehmet Seflek

Taxation Toward Representation: Evidence from (Re)starting Municipal Tax Collection and Voter Participation in Haiti

Benjamin Krause and Jeremy Magruder

Geography and Supply Chain Organization: Theory and Evidence from India

Piyush Panigrahi

Development Intervention Forecasting

Nicholas Otis

Behavioral and market determinants of household energy efficiency in a development context

Susanna Berkouwer and Joshua Dean

Consumer valuation of piped water connections

Elizabeth Spink

Evaluation of I-M-POWER Sexual Violence Prevention Program in Kisumu, Kenya

Ashri Anurudran

Affirmative Action, Attitudes and Social Networks: Evidence from Caste-Based Reservation in India

Emily Breza, Arun Chandrasekhar, M. R. Sharan

Bridging the Gap: Improving Grievance Redressal Mechanisms in Rural India

Sharan Mamidipudi, Chinmayaent Kumar

Decentralization and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Healthcare in Indonesia

Allan Hsiao

Graduating the Ultra Poor in Ghana

Chris Udry, Dean Karlan

Unequal Returns to Higher Education

Nano Barahona, Sebastian Otero

Unpacking the Gender Profit Gap: Evidence from Micro-Businesses in India

Solene Delecourt, Odyssia Ng

The Economics of Women’s Entrepreneurship: Intergenerational Spillovers of Economic Empowerment

Jeremy Magruder

Incentive and Sorting Effects of Performance Pay

Christina Brown, Tahir Andrabi

Citizen Feedback Loops: Improving Public Service Delivery through Bureaucratic Accountability

Nicholas Kuipers

Taxation Toward Representation: Public Goods Provision, Tax Collection, and Democratic Accountability in Haiti

Benjamin Krause

Social Norms and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories

Oren Reshef, Laura Boudreau, Sakib Mahmood

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<h3>Digitizing citizen-state communication: The effects of “less-paper” government offices on government service provision in Bangladesh</h3>
Martin Mattsson
<h3>Private and Social Costs of Power Outages in Small Enterprises: Evidence from Urban India</h3>
Fiona Burlig and Louis Preonas
<h3>The impact of low-income housing programs on political and economic behavior: a randomized evaluation from Mumbai, Maharashtra</h3>
Tanu Kumar and Pradeep Chhibber
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/womens-employment-in-india-intra-household-and-intra-personal-constraints/”>Unlearning Helplessness: Locus of Control and Women’s Labor Supply</a></h3>
Madeline McKelway
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/social-and-cognitive-peer-effects-experimental-evidence-from-selective-high-schools-in-peru/”>Social Connections and Peer Effects: An Experiment in Peruvian Exam Schools</a></h3>
Roman Andres Zarate
<h3>Heat Stress, Human Capital, and Adaptation to Climate Change in India</h3>
Arnold Patrick Behrer and Jisung Park
<h3>Using New Asset Collateralized Loans to Encourage Investment</h3>
Gautam Rao and Michael Kremer
<h3>Household Resources Allocation and Health of Rural Elderly</h3>
Zhengyun Sun
<h3>The Impact and Cost-effectiveness of Linking Smallholder Agricultural Investments to School Feeding Programs in Mozambique</h3>
Cara Myers
<h3>Politician Preferences, Public Goods Provision, and Decentralization</h3>
Ryan Sheely, Vivian Hoffmann, Pamela Jakiela, and Michael Kremer
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/hidden-income-and-the-perceived-returns-to-migration-experimental-evidence-from-kenya/”>Information Frictions in the Migration Decision: Planning a Field Experiment in Kenya</a></h3>
Travis Baseler
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/home-price-subsidies-increase-claim-making-in-urban-india/”>The impact of homeownership on low-income urban residents: a natural experiment from Mumbai</a></h3>
Tanu Kumar and Pradeep Chhibber
<h3>Intervening on Patient Experience: Reducing Information Asymmetry and Leveraging Community Accountability</h3>
Elysia Larson
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-effects-of-joining-multinational-supply-chains-new-evidence-from-firm-to-firm-linkages/”>The Impact of FDI through the Production Network: Evidence from Costa Rica</a></h3>
Isabela Manelici and Jose Pablo Vasquez Carvajal
<h3>Addressing Mistrust in Medicine in Central Africa</h3>
Eduardo Montero and Sara Lowes
<h3>Individual vs. Group Liability Contracts for Farmers in Western Kenya</h3>
Odyssia Ng
<h3>Decreasing Children’s Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution through Modern Cookstoves: A Proposed Evaluation of India’s Landmark Gas-stove Subsidy Program</h3>
Nicholas Ryan and Prabhat Barnwal
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/does-financial-strain-lower-productivity/”>Does Scarcity Diminish Productivity?</a></h3>
Frank Schilbach, Supreet Kaur, Suanna Oh, and Sendhil Mullainaithan
<h3>Does Scarcity Diminish Productivity?</h3>
Cory Smith
<h3>Female voices, community choices: a randomized controlled trial to evaluate female-only Community Monitoring meetings</h3>
Maria Steenland

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<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/when-information-is-not-enough-evidence-from-a-centralized-school-choice-system/”>Short Run Effects of Guidance and Information for Improved Decistions in Education (GuIIDE)</a></h3>
Kehinde Ajayi
<h3>Beyond Free: Measuring Impact of Water Chlorination Free Delivery Strategies</h3>
Matthew Basilico
<h3>Giving Workers a Voice within the Firm: Evidence from Bangledesh’s Ready-made Garment Sector</h3>
Laura Boudreau
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/time-versus-state-in-insurance-experimental-evidence-from-contract-farming-in-kenya/”>Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from India</a></h3>
Lorenzo Casaburi, Bheeshm Chaudhary, Siddharth George, and Jack Willis
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/public-education-investment-and-local-labor-markets-evidence-froma-large-federal-program-in-brazil/”>Does Education Help Poor Regions Catch Up? Evidence from Brazil</a></h3>
Juan Pablo Chauvin
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-impact-of-monetary-incentives-on-referral-by-taditional-birth-attendants-for-postnatal-care-in-nigeria/”>Incentives for Postnatal Care Demand</a></h3>
Adanna Chukwuma
<h3>Hearing Yourself Think:  The Impact of Noise on Cognitive Bandwidth and Worker Productivity</h3>
Joshua Dean
<h3>Behavioral Barriers to Improved Child Nutrition</h3>
Katherine Donato
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/connecting-the-countryside-via-e-commerce-evidence-from-china/”>Connecting Rural Households to E-Commerce: Evidence from Taobao’s 100 Thousand Villages Project in China</a></h3>
Benjamin Faber,  Victor Couture, Yizen Gu, and Lizhi Liu
<h3>Information, Accountability, and Family-school Engagement:  An Experimental Evaluation in Manizales, Columbia</h3>
Felipe Barrera-Osario and David Deming
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/rural-roads-agricultural-extension-and-productivity/”>Priority Sector Targeting and Structural Transformation in Ethiopia</a></h3>
Mesay Melese Gebresilasse
<h3>Peer-Conditional Contracts for Common-Pool Conservation: The Case of Gujarat’s Groundwater</h3>
Nick Hagerty and Ariel Zucker
<h3>Cream of the Crop: Targeting High Ability Microentrepreneurs</h3>
Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth
<h3>Demand Side Interventions to Improve the Quality of Health Care in India</h3>
Radhika Jain
<h3>Social Incentives for Immunization</h3>
Anne Karing
<h3>Job Matching in Informal Labor Markets (Fall 2016)
Improving Labor Market Outcomes for Disadvantage Workers (Spring 2016)</h3>
Erin Kelley and Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/peak-hour-road-congestion-pricing-experimental-evidence-and-equilibrium-implications/”>Smart Congestion Pricing: Testing Travel Incentives to Reduce Congestion in Chennai</a></h3>
Gabriel Kreindler
<h3>When Do Media Stations Support Electoral Accountability? A Field Experiment in Mexico</h3>
Horacio Larreguy, Christopher Lucas, and John Marshall
<h3>Diversity and Redisributive Preferences: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Colombia</h3>
Juliana Londono-Velez
<h3>Inter-Caste Contact and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from India (Fall 2016)
Jobs and Female Empowerment: A Pilot Study in India (Spring 2016)</h3>
Matt Lowe
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/driving-down-demand-for-diesel-does-a-bus-driver-training-and-incentive-program-increase-fuel-efficiency/”>Incentivizing Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving: An Experiment with Bus Drivers in Karnataka, India</a></h3>
Janhavi Nilekani
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/can-audits-backfire-evidence-from-public-procurement-in-chile/”>Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile</a></h3>
Dina Pomeranz, Maria Paula Gerardino, and Stephan Litschig
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/bargaining-breakdown-intra-household-decision-making-and-female-labor-supply/”>Secret Keeping and Jobs for Women: Experimental Evidence from India</a></h3>
Madeline McKelway, Matt Lowe, and Heather Sarsons
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/general-equilibrium-effects-of-cash-transfers-experimental-evidence-from-kenya/”>General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers in Kenya</a></h3>
Edward Miguel, Johannes Haushofer, Paul Niehaus
<h3>What Makes Individuals Join Armed Organizations? Revenge, Moral sentiments, and Social networks</h3>
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/how-research-affects-policy-experimental-evidence-from-2150-brazilian-municipalities/”>How Do Policymakers Respond to Information from Policy Research?</a></h3>
Gautam Rao, Jonas Hjort, and Diana Moreira
<h3>Monitoring Safety of Semi-Formal Public Transport in Tanzania: Commuter Information versus Bus Owner Information</h3>
David Schoenholzer
<h3>Currency Depreciations, Education Expansion, and Industrial Development: Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector</h3>
Alex Segura and Abdullah Alsabah
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/when-financial-incentives-backfire-evidence-from-a-community-health-worker-experiment-in-uganda/”>Utilizing Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda</a></h3>
Zachary Wagner
<h3>Incentivizing High-level State Employees to Directly Confront Rural Poverty: a RCT Design Based on a Novel Development Program in China</h3>
Shaoda Wang
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-participation-dividend-of-taxation-how-citizens-in-congo-engage-more-with-the-state-when-it-tries-to-tax-them/”>Tracking Taxes: A Randomized Evaluation of a Government Anti-Corruption Intervention</a></h3>
Jonathan Weigel

<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-importance-of-information-targeting-for-school-choice/”>Guidance and Information for Improved Decisions in Education (GuIIDE)</a></h3>
Kehinde Ajayi
<h3>Firm Entry Barriers, Growth Constraints, and Job Creation: Theory and Evidence from Brazil</h3>
Samuel Bazzi
<h3>Informing or reminding? Potential strategies to increase compliance rate for CCT program in Indonesia</h3>
Clio Dintilhac and Amri Ilmma
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-economic-consequences-of-increasing-sleep-among-the-urban-poor/”>The Economic Effects of Sleep Deprivation among the Urban Poor</a></h3>
Gautum Rao, Frank Schilbach, and Heather Schofield
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/the-political-boundaries-of-ethnic-division/”>Decentralization and Violence: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia</a></h3>
Matthew Gudgeon
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/effects-of-digitization-on-financial-behaviors-experimental-evidence-from-the-philippines/”>Access to Savings Account: A Mobile Banking Experiment in the Philippines</a></h3>
Tomoko Harigaya
<h3>Testing Rational Addiction: Hand Washing and Habit Formation in West Bengal</h3>
Reshmaan Hussam, Giovanni Reggiani, and Natalia Rigol
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/social-signaling-and-childhood-immunization-a-field-experiment-in-sierra-leone/”>Externalities and Social Influence in Childhood Immunization</a></h3>
Anne Karing
<h3>Bridging the Gap through Local Philanthropy</h3>
Carolyne Nekesa Khagondi
<h3>Detecting Social Networks with Satellite Imagery to Maximize Impact of Rural Development Initiatives at Mimimal Cost</h3>
Jeremy Magruder and Solomon Hsiang
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/driving-down-demand-for-diesel-does-a-bus-driver-training-and-incentive-program-increase-fuel-efficiency/”>Incentivizing Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving: An Experiment with Bus Drivers in Karnataka, India</a></h3>
Janhavi Nilekani
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/does-exposure-to-other-ethnic-regions-promote-national-integration-evidence-from-nigeria/”>Impact of Inter-Ethnic Exposure in National Identity: Lessons from the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps</a></h3>
Oyebola Okunogbe
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/challenges-of-monitoring-tax-compliance-by-multinational-firms-evidence-from-chile/”>How can Emerging Countries Tax Multinational Firms? Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Chile</a></h3>
Dina Pomeranz, Gabriel Zucman, and Sebastian Bustos
<h3>Tackling Governance Challenges in India: Public Services and Electoral Accountability</h3>
Sarika Ringwala
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/perils-of-the-paperwork-the-impact-of-information-and-application-assistance-on-welfare-program-take-up-in-india/”>Citizen Empowerment and Social Pensions in Delhi</a></h3>
Sarika Ringwala
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/impact-of-a-text-messaging-program-on-adolescent-reproductive-health-a-cluster-randomized-trial-in-ghana/”>Impact of an Interactive Mobile Phone Program on Sexual Behavior among Ghanaian Teenage Girls</a></h3>
Slawa Rokicki
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/feasibility-and-acceptability-of-financial-incentives-and-peer-led-life-skills-training-for-improving-adherence-to-antiretroviral-therapy-among-adolescents-living-with-hiv-in-rwanda-a-pilot-study/”>Optimizing Antiretroviral Adherence for Adolescents Living with HIV in Rwanda</a></h3>
Manasi Sharma
<h3>Craigslist’ for the Rural Poor: A Field Experiment on Seasonal Migration</h3>
Niharika Singh
<h3>Examining Peer-effects of Water Treatment Practices to Improve Public Health</h3>
Maria Steenland
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/broken-cities-the-effect-of-government-responsiveness-on-citizens-participation/”>Fixing Broken Windows: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Buenos Aires</a></h3>
Laura Trucco
<h3>Milk Safety in China: A Field Experiment</h3>
Nancy Wang
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/experimental-evidence-on-the-economics-of-rural-electrification-2/”>Estimating the Impacts of Rural Electrification in Kenya</a></h3>
Catherine Wolfram
<h3>The Sociology of Management Adoption</h3>
Lisa Xu

<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/melons-as-lemons-asymmetric-information-consumer-learning-and-quality-provision/”>Product Quality, Consumer Learning, and Reputation Building : A Randomized Experiment with Watermelons</a></h3>
Jie Bai
<h3>Infrastructure, Capital Inflows, and Productivity in India</h3>
Natalie Bau
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/workfare-wellbeing-and-consumption-evidence-from-a-field-experiment-with-kenyas-urban-poor/”>Windfalls and Work: A Field Experiment of Motivation, Effort, Happiness and Spending in Kenya</a></h3>
Syon Bhanot
<h3>Estimating the Demand for Air Pollution Information</h3>
Rema Hanna
<h3>Pass-through of Quality Premiums to Smallholder Farmers in Gujarat</h3>
Sara Hernandez, Reshmann Hussam and Natalia Rigol
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/measuring-commuting-and-economic-activity-inside-cities-with-cell-phone-records/”>How Does an Expressway Change the Mobility and Migration Pattern? Evidence from Cell Phone Transaction Data in Sri Lanka</a></h3>
Yuhei Miyauchi
<h3>Impact of Interethnic Exposure: Evidence from Nigeria</h3>
Oyebola Olabisi
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/relationships-on-the-rocks-contract-evolution-in-a-market-for-ice/”>Risk and Relationships: Ice Retail in the Sierra Leone Fishing Industry</a></h3>
Tristan Reed
<h3>Evaluating and Improving the Effectiveness of Right to Public Services Legislation for the Poor in India</h3>
Sarika Ringwala
<h3>Exploring Vocational Training Partnerships for Rural India</h3>
Shayak Sarkar
<h3>Alcohol Consumption among the Poor: A Study with Rickshaw Pullers in India</h3>
Frank Schilbach
<h3>Assessing Profit Maximization: A Lab in the Field Approach</h3>
Frank Schilbach and Heather Schofield
<h3>Cash or Conditions: Consequences on Cognitive Abilities in Indonesia</h3>
Lily Shen and Arthur Bauer
<h3>The Burden of Taxation on the Poor in Developing Countries: Evidence from Commodity Taxation in India</h3>
Monica Singhal
<h3>Effects  of Subsidy Rationalization on Low-Income Households and Small Businesses in Malaysia</h3>
Gabriel Tourek
<h3>Investing Norms on Firm Size and Business Practices in a Retail Cluster in Ghana</h3>
Lisa Xu

<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/consumer-perceptions-and-saving-behavior/”>Consumer Perceptions and Saving Responses to Information and Bank Reforms</a></h3>
Kehinde Ajayi
<h3>Learned Helplessness, Mindfulness, and Job Performance: An Experimental Study in Saudi Arabia</h3>
Samura Attalah
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/teacher-performance-pay-experimental-evidence-from-pakistan/”>School Incentives Program in Punjab, Pakistan</a></h3>
Felipe Barrera-Osorio
<h3>The Impacts of Irrigation on Mexican Industrial Development</h3>
Melissa Dell
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/labor-regulations-and-the-cost-of-corruption-evidence-from-the-indian-firm-size-distribution/”>The Effect of Size-Based Regulations on Firms and the Pattern of Development in India</a></h3>
Michael Gechter and Amrit Amirapu
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/intrinsic-incentives-a-field-experiment-on-leveraging-intrinsic-motivation-in-public-service-delivery/”>Motivating Community Health Workers: Two Field Experiments on Non-Financial Incentives for Prosocial Tasks</a></h3>
Scott Lee
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/bureaucrats-and-politicians-electoral-competition-and-dynamic-incentives/”>Political Competition and Bureaucratic Effort</a></h3>
Anusha Nath
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/enfranchising-your-own-experimental-evidence-on-bureaucrat-diversity-and-election-bias-in-india/”>Polling Station Officer Identity and Electoral Outcomes in India</a></h3>
Yusuf Neggers
<h3>Study on Mhealth and Reproductive Health in Teens</h3>
Slawa Rokicki
<h3>The Causes and Effects of Improved Health Supply: Evidence from Rwanda</h3>
Martin Rotemberg and Jack Willis
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/alcohol-and-self-control-a-field-experiment-in-india/”>Alcohol Consumption Among Rickshaw Peddlers in Chennai: A Study of Poverty, Pain and Self Control</a></h3>
Frank Schilbach
<h3><a href=”https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/work-and-womens-marriage-fertility-and-empowerment-evidence-from-textile-mill-employment-in-india/”>Work Now, Marry Later: Textile Workers in India</a></h3>
Anitha Sivasankaran
<h3>Shortening the Hungry Season:  The Impact of Shorter Duration Rice on Food Security in Sierra Leone</h3>
Tavneet Suri
<h3>Citizens’ Complaints and Public Good’s Provision</h3>
Laura Trucco