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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 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

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