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 151 - 200.
Baysan, Ceren; Dar, Manzoor H.; Emerick, Kyle; Sadoulet, Elisabeth: The agricultural wage gap within rural villages , 2019
Beltramo, Theresa; Blalock, Garrick; Harrell, Stephen; Levine, David I.; Simons, Andrew M.: The Effects of Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves on Fuel Use, Particulate Matter, and Cooking Practices: Results from a Randomized Trial in Rural Uganda, 2019
Berkouwer, Susanna B; Dean, Joshua T: Credit and attention in the adoption of profitable energy efficient technologies in Kenya, 2019
Breza, Emily; Kaur, Supreet; Krishnaswamy, Nandita: Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor, 2019
Brown, Elizabeth D.; Tanner, Jeffery C.: Integrating Value for Money and Impact Evaluations: Issues, Institutions, and Opportunities, 2019
Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus; Klapper, Leora; Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia; Schaner, Simone: The Limits of Commitment: Who Benefits from Illiquid Savings Products?, 2019
Callen, Michael; Gulzar, Saad; Rezaee, Arman; Shapiro, Jacob N: Choosing Ungoverned Space: The Removal of Pakistan’s Frontier Crimes Regulation, 2019
Castellanos, Sara G; Jiménez-Hernández, Diego; Mahajan, Aprajit; Seira, Enrique: The Difficulties of Financial Inclusion via Large Banks: Evidence from Mexico, 2019
Chong, Alberto; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Karlan, Dean; Valdivia, Martín: Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia, 2019
Dar, Manzoor H.; de Janvry, Alain; Emerick, Kyle; Kelley, Erin M.; Sadoulet, Elisabeth: Endogenous Information Sharing and the Gains from Using Network Information to Maximize Technology Adoption, 2019
Duarte, Raul; Finan, Frederico; Laireguy, Horacio; Schechter, Laura: Brokering Votes With Information Spread Via Social Networks , 2019
Fafchamps, Marcel; Islam, Asad; Malek, Abdul; Pakrashi, Debayan: Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices- Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh, 2019
Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; Schaner, Simone; Moore, Charity Troyer: On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms, 2019
Garg , Teevrat; Gibson, Matthew; Sun , Fanglin: Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China, 2019
Ghanem, Dalia; Hirshleifer, Sarojini; Ortiz-Becerra, Karen: Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments, 2019
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Muralidharan, Karthik: An Inclusive Growth Dividend: Reframing the Role of Income Transfers in India’s Anti-Poverty Strategy, 2019
Gulati, Kajal; Ward, Patrick S; Lybbert, Travis J; Spielman, David J: Intrahousehold valuation, preference heterogeneity, and demand for an agricultural technology in India, 2019
Hardy, Morgan; Heath, Rachel M; Lee, Wesley; McCormick, Tyler H: Estimating spillovers using imprecisely measured networks, 2019
Hazlett, Chad; Maokola, Werner; Wulf, David Ami: Inference without randomization or ignorability: A stability controlled quasi-experiment on the prevention of tuberculosis, 2019
Hjort, Jonas; Moreira, Diana; Rao, Gautam; Santini, Juan Francisco: How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities, 2019
Khanna, Gaurav; Medina, Carlos; Nyshadham, Anant; Tamayo, Jorge A.: Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia, 2019
Lee, Kenneth; Miguel, Edward; Wolfram, Catherine: Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?, 2019
Ligon, Ethan; Malick, Badal; Sheth, Ketki; Trachtman, Carly: What explains low adoption of digital payment technologies? Evidence from small-scale merchants in Jaipur, India, 2019
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo: The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being- Evidence from a Natural Experiment, 2019
Shah, Manisha; Millet Steinberg, Bryce: The Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality, 2019
Wang Sonne, Soazic Elise; Verme, Paolo: Intergenerational Impact of Population Shocks on Children's Health: Evidence from the 1993-2001 Refugee Crisis in Tanzania, 2019
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Liu, Tong; Song, Yingquan; Tang, Qu; Zhang, Peng: The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital In China, 2019
Bouguen, Adrien; Huang, Yue; Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward: Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics, 2018
Wydick, Bruce: When Are Cash Transfers Transformative?, 2018
Christensen, Garret; Miguel, Edward: Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research, 2017
Dupas, Pascaline; Huillery, Elise; Seban, Juliette: Risk Information, Risk Salience, and Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Cameroon, 2017
Ferree, Karen E; Gibson, Clark C; Jung, Danielle F; Long, James D; McIntosh, Craig: How Technology Shapes the Crowd: Participation in the 2014 South African Election, 2017
Hamory Hicks, Joan; Kleemans, Marieke; Li, Nicholas Y.; Miguel, Edward: Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata, 2017
Sarah, Baird; McIntosh, Craig T; Özler, Berk: When the Money Runs out: Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?, 2017
Atkin, David; Faber, Benjamin; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco: Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico, 2016
Dal Bo, Ernesto; Finan, Frederico; Folke, Olle; Persson, Torsten; Rickne, Johanna: Who Becomes a Politican?, 2016
David, Levine I.; Beltramo, Theresa; Blalock, Garrick; Cotterman, Carolyn; Simons, Andrew: What Impedes Efficient Adoption of Products? Evidence from Randomized Sales Offers for Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves in Uganda, 2016
Dupas, Pascaline; Keats, Anthony; Robinson, Jonathan: The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya, 2016
Gertler, Paul J; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Gracner, Tadeja; Rothenberg, Alexander D.: Road Quality, Local Economic Activity, and Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways, 2016
Lee, Kenneth; Miguel, Edward; Wolfram, Catherine: Appliance Ownership and Aspirations among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya, 2016
Lybbert, Travis J.; Vosti, Stephen A.; Adams, Katherine P.; Guissou, Rosemonde: Household Demand for Child Micronutrient Supplementation in Burkina Faso, 2016
Miguel, Edward; Wolfram, Catherine; Lee, Kenneth: Experimental Evidence on the Demand for and Costs of Rural Electrification, 2016
Özler, Berk; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Kariger, Patricia; McConnell, Christin; Neuman, Michelle; Fraga, Eduardo: Combining Preschool Teacher Training with Parenting Education: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, 2016
Baird, Sarah; Hamory Hicks, Joan; Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward: Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment, 2015
Blumenstock, Joshua E.: Calling for Better Measurement: Estimating an Individual’s Wealth and Well-Being from Mobile Phone Transaction Records, 2015
Gertler, Paul; Shah, Manisha; Alzua, Maria Laura; Cameron, Lisa; Martinez, Sebastian; Patil, Sumeet: How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Dirty Defecation, 2015
Gertler, Paul; Galiani, Sebastian; Bando, Rosangela: Non-contributory Pensions, 2015
Guiteras, Raymond P.; Levine, David I.; Luby, Stephen P.; Polley, Thomas H.; Khatun-e-Jannat, Kaniz; Unicomb, Leanne: Disgust, Shame and Soapy Water: Tests of Novel Interventions to Promote Safe Water and Hygiene, 2015
Guiteras, Raymond P.; Levine, David I.; Polley, Thomas H.: The Pursuit of Balance in Sequential Randomized Trials, 2015
Hsiang, Solomon M.; Burke, Marshall; Miguel, Edward; Meng, Kyle C.; Cane, Mark A.: Analysis of statistical power reconciles drought-conflict results in Africa, 2015