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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

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