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 101 - 150.
Warrier Mukherjee, Sanghamitra; Bergquist, Lauren F; Burke, Marshall; Miguel, Edward: Unlocking the Benefits of Credit Through Saving, 2021
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, David S.; Robinson, Jonathan; Spearot, Alan: Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi, 2020
Alon, Titan; Kim, Minki; Lagakos, David; VanVuren, Mitchell: How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?, 2020
Alrababa’h, Ala’; Masterson, Daniel; Casalis, Marine; Hangartner, Dominik; Weinstein, Jeremy: The Dynamics of Refugee Return: Syrian Refugees and Their MigrationIntentions, 2020
Anderson, Siwan; Francois, Patrick: Political Quotas and Governance, 2020
Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V: Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees, 2020
Baird, Sarah; Muz, Jennifer; Panlilio, Raphael; Smith, Stephanie; Wydick, Bruce: Identifying Psychological Trauma among Syrian Refugee Children for Early Intervention: Analyzing Digitized Drawings using Machine Learning, 2020
Bhusal, Bhishma; Callen, Michael; Gulzar, Saad; Pande, Rohini; Prillaman, Soledad A; Singhania, Deepak: Does Revolution Work? Evidence from Nepal’s People’s War, 2020
Bird, Samuel S; Carter, Michael R; Lybbert, Travis J; Mathenge, Mary W. K; Njagi Njeru, Timothy; Tjernström, Emilia: Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya, 2020
Björkegren, Daniel; Blumenstock, Joshua E; Knight, Samsun: Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning, 2020
Blair, Graeme; Christensen, Darin; Rudkin, Aaron: Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments, 2020
Blair, Graeme; Christensen, Darin; Rudkin, Aaron: Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments, 2020
Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Olckers, Matthew: Gamblers Learn from Experience, 2020
Christensen, Darin; Dube, Oeindrila; Haushofer, Johannes; Siddiqi, Bilal; Voors, Maarten: Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, 2020
Christensen, Darin; Dube, Oeindrila; Haushofer, Johannes; Siddiqi, Bilal; Voors, Maarten: Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak, 2020
Christensen, Garret; Wang, Zenan; Levy Paluck, Elizabeth; Swanson, Nicholas; Birke, David; Miguel, Edward et al.: Open Science Practices are on the Rise: The State of Social Science (3S) Survey, 2020
Christiaensen, Luc; Ligon, Ethan; Sohnesen, Thomas P: Should Consumption Sub-aggregates Be Used to Measure Poverty?, 2020
Corral, Carolina; Giné, Xavier; Mahajan, Aprajit; Seira, Enrique: Autonomy and Specificity In Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Mexico, 2020
de Janvry, Alain; He, Guojun; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Wang, Shaoda; Zhang, Qiong: Performance Evaluation, Influence Activities, and Bureaucratic Work Behavior: Evidence from China, 2020
DellaVigna, Stefano; Otis, Nicholas; Vivalt, Eva: Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy, 2020
Dillon, Brian; Aker, Jenny C; Blumenstock, Joshua E: How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania, 2020
Egger, Dennis; Haushofer, Johannes; Miguel, Edward; Niehaus, Paul; Walker, Michael: General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya, 2020
Ellwood-Lowe, Monica E.; Foushee, Ruthe; Srinivasan, Mahesh: What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child-directed speech, 2020
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico; Martinez-Bravo, Monica: Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil, 2020
Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia; García-Sánchez, Miguel; Matanock, Aila: Elite Political Cues and Attitude Formation in Post-Conflict Contexts, 2020
Garg, Teevrat; McCord, Gordon C; Montfort, Aleister: Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?, 2020
Garg, Teevrat; Shenoy, Ajay: The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies, 2020
Gulzar, Saad; Rueda, Miguel R; Ruiz, Nelson A: Do Campaign Contribution Limits Curb the Influence of Money in Politics?, 2020
Gulzar, Saad; Haas, Nicholas; Pasquale, Benjamin: Does Political Affirmative Action Work, and for Whom? Theory and Evidence on India’s Scheduled Areas, 2020
Gulzar, Saad; Hai, Zuhad; Paudel, Binod K: Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal, 2020
Hamory, Joan; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael W; Kremer, Michael; Baird, Sarah J: Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming, 2020
Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V.; Bahar, Dany: Empowering Migrants: Impacts of a Migrant’s Amnesty on Crime Reports, 2020
Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V.: Forced Migration and the Spread of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Lagakos, David; Marshall, Samuel; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Vernot, Corey; Waugh, Michael E: Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World, 2020
Ligon, Ethan: Estimating Household Welfare from Disaggregate Expenditures, 2020
Magaloni, Beatriz; Rodriguez, Luis: Torture as a method of criminal prosecution: Police Brutality, the Militarization of Security and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico, 2020
McIntosh, Craig; Zeitlin, Andrew: Using Household Grants to Benchmark the Cost Effectiveness of a USAID Workforce Readiness Program, 2020
Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha: Unintended Consequences of Lockdowns: COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic, 2020
Rozo, Sandra V.; Urbina, Maria J.: Who Does Not Like Migrants? Individual Demographics and Attitudes Towards Migration, 2020
Wydick, Bruce; Zahid, Mustafa; Manning, Sam; Maller, Jeremiah; Evsanaa, Kira; Skjoldhorne, Susann et al.: The Impact of Cleft Lip/Palate and Surgical Intervention on Adolescent Life Outcomes: Evidence from Operation Smile in India, 2020
Zhimin, Li; Ethan, Ligon: Inferring Informal Risk-Sharing Regimes: Evidence from Rural Tanzania, 2020
Akee, Randall; Jones, Maggie R: Immigrants’ Earnings Growth and Return Migration from the U.S.: Examining their Determinants using Linked Survey and Administrative Data , 2019
Alatas, Vivi; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Mobius, Markus; Olken, Benjamin A; Paladines, Cindy: When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia , 2019
Almås, Ingvild; Auffhammer, Maximilian; Bold, Tessa; Bolliger, Ian; Dembo, Aluma; Hsiang, Solomon M. et al.: Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-Making Under Thermal Stress, 2019
Alsan, Marcella; Atella, Vincenzo; Bhattacharya, Jay; Conti, Valentina; Mejía-Guevara, Iván: Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy, 2019
Ayalew, Shibiru; Manian, Shanthi; Sheth, Ketki: Discrimination from Below: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia, 2019
Bando, Rosangela; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; Gertler, Paul: Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning: Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries, 2019
Banerjee, Abhijit; Niehaus, Paul; Suri, Tavneet: Universal Basic Income in the Developing World, 2019
Barrows, Geoffrey; Garg, Teevrat; Jha, Akshaya: The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India, 2019
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Miguel, Edward: Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya, 2019