CEGA Working Papers
The CEGA Working Paper Series showcases ongoing and completed research by faculty affiliates of the Center. CEGA Working Papers employ rigorous evaluation techniques to measure the impact of large-scale social and economic development programs, and are intended to encourage discussion and feedback from the global development community.
There are 239 publications in this collection, published between 2012 and 2024. Showing 1 - 50.
Ahmad, Husnain F.; Gibson, Matthew; Nadeem, Fatiq; Nasim, Sanval; Rezaee, Arman: Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Threats, 2024
Batheja, Deepshikha; Hirshleifer, Sarojini; Kaur, Opinder: Does signaling college-level human capital matter? An experimental study in India, 2024
Batheja, Deepshikha; Hirshleifer, Sarojini; Mullins, Jamie T.: More than particulates matter: Multiple pollutants and productivity in Indian call centers, 2024
Berwart, Erik; Higgins, Sean; Kulkarni, Sheisha; Truffa, Santiago: Searching with Inaccurate Priors in Consumer Credit Markets, 2024
Heath, Rachel; Riley, Emma: Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, 2024
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; Naseem, Mustafa; Raza, Agha Ali; Rezaee, Arman: The spread of (mis)information: A social media experiment in Pakistan, 2024
Kohli, Nitin; Blumenstock, Joshua E.: Enabling Humanitarian Applications with Targeted Differential Privacy, 2024
Kohli, Nitin; Aiken, Emily; Blumenstock, Joshua: Privacy Guarantees for Personal Mobility Data in Humanitarian Response, 2024
Riley, Emma; Shonchoy, Abu; Darko Osei, Robert: Incentives and Endorsement for Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mobile Banking in Ghana, 2024
Walker, Michael; Shah, Nachiket; Miguel, Edward; Egger, Dennis; Soliman, Felix S; Graff, Tilman: Slack and Economic Development, 2024
Agyemang, Felix S.K.; Memon, Rashid; John Wolf, Levi; Fox, Sean: High-resolution rural poverty mapping in Pakistan with ensemble deep learning, 2023
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Ibanez, Ana Maria; Rozo, Sandra V.; Traettino, Salvador: Impact of Facilitating Ntegration in Migrant's Fertility Decisions, 2023
Anand, Gautam; Atluri, Aishwarya; Crawford, Lee; Pugatch, Todd; Sheth, Ketki: Improving school management in low and middle income countries: A systematic review, 2023
Angeli, Deivis; Matavelli, Ieda; Secco, Fernando: Expected Discrimination and Job Search, 2023
Ayalew, Shibiru; Manian, Shanthi; Sheth, Ketki: Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, 2023
Baral, Siddhartha; Nellis, Gareth; Weaver, Michael: The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious Events: India’s Kumbh Mela, 2023
Bassi, Vittorio; Khan, Matthew E.; Gracia, Nancy Lozano; Porzio, Tommaso; Sorin, Jeanne: Searching for Customers, Finding Pollution, 2023
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd: Unintended Consequences of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda , 2023
Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Kohli, Nitin: Big Data Privacy in Emerging Market Fintech and Financial Services: A Research Agenda, 2023
Brown, Elizabeth; Stillman, Sarah; Soliman, Farida; Romao, Davi; Katairo, Thomas: Improving livelihoods outcomes for forcibly displaced populations: a Rapid Review, 2023
Cohen, Isabelle; Abubakar, Maryam; Perlman, Daniel: Pathways to Choice: A Bundled Intervention against Child Marriage, 2023
Courtin, Constant; Nellis, Gareth; Weaver, Michael: Poverty and Prejudice Before Genocide, 2023
Duhon, Madeline; Miguel, Edward; Njuguna, Amos; Pinto Veizaga, Daniela; Walker, Michael: Preparing for an Aging Africa: Data- Driven Priorities for Economic Research and Policy, 2023
Iyer, Ganesh; Ke, T. Tony: Competitive Model Selection in Algorithmic Targeting, 2023
Shenoy , Ashish; Lybbert, Travis J.: Implementer Desirability Bias in Program Evaluation, 2023
Siegal, Alexandra A.; Wolf, Jessica; Weinstein, Jeremy: How Syrian Refugees Engage with Online Information, 2023
Urbina, Maria Jose; Moya, Andres Moya; Rozo, Sandra V.: The Fine Line between Nudging and Nagging: Increasing Take-up Rates through Social Media Platforms, 2023
Walker, Michael; Huang, Alice; Asman, Suleiman; Baird, Sarah; Fernald, Lia; Hamory, Joan et al.: Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey, 2023
Wolfram, Catherine; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; Berkouwer, Susanna B.: Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement: Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification, 2023
Anderson, Siwan; Björkman Nyqvist, Martina; Guariso, Andrea: Political Selection in Local Elections: Evidence from Rural Uganda, 2022
Angelucci, Manuela; Heath, Rachel; Noble, Eva: Graduation Programs Targeting Women: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022
Araujo, Rafael; Costa, Fracisco; Garg, Teevrat: Public Attention and Environmental Action: Evidence from Fires in the Amazon, 2022
Berkes, Jan; Bouguen, Adrien: Estimating Preschool Impacts when Counterfactual Enrollment Varies: Bounds, Conditional LATE and Machine Learning, 2022
Björkegren, Daniel; Blumenstock, Joshua E; Folajimi-Senjobi, Omowunmi; Mauro, Jacqueline; Nair, Suraj R: Instant Loans Can Lift Subjective Well-Being: A Randomized Evaluation of Digital Credit in Nigeria, 2022
Brailovskaya, Valentina; Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan: Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi, 2022
Chopra, Sahiba; Wydick, Bruce: The Health Costs of Political Identity: Evidence from the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022
Cordaro, Francis; Fafchamps, Marcel; Mayer, Colin; Meki, Muhammad; Quinn, Simon; Roll, Kate: Microequity and Mutuality: Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment, 2022
Davis, Lucas W; McRae, Shaun; Seira, Enrique: The competitive effects of entry in the deregulated Mexican gasoline market, 2022
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael: Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan, 2022
Dupas, Pascaline; Fafchamps, Marcel; Lestant, Eva: Panel Data Evidence on the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Livelihoods in Urban Côte d'Ivoire, 2022
Fafchamps, Marcel; Shrinivas, Aditya: Risk Pooling and Precautionary Saving in Village Economies, 2022
Field, Erica M; Rigol, Natalia; Troyer, Charity M; Pande, Rohini: Banking on Transparency for the Poor: Experimental Evidence from India, 2022
Fuchs, William; Iyer, Ganesh; Jeziorski, Przemyslaw: SMS Training and Micro-Entrepreneurship Performance, 2022
Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; Singer, Gregor: Can Competition Reduce Conflict?, 2022
Gottlieb, Jessica; Adida, Claire L.; Moussa, Richard: Reducing Misinformation in a Polarized Context: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire, 2022
Haushofer, Johannes; Niehaus, Paul; Paramo, Carlos; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael: Targeting impact versus deprivation, 2022
Haushofer, Johannes; Niehaus, Paul; Paramo, Carlos; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael: Targeting impact versus deprivation, 2022
Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A; Mironova, Vera: When Does Past Trauma Matter for Present Decision-making? Evidence from a Field Study on Myopia and Waiting Periods, 2022
Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Kala, Namrata; Pande, Rohini: Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning, 2022
Jakubowski, Aleksandra; Egger, Dennis; Mulebeke, Ronald; Akankwasa, Pius; Muruta, Allan; Kiwanuka, Noah et al.: Evaluation Of A National Program To Distribute Free Masks For COVID-19 Prevention In Uganda: Evidence From Mbale District, 2022