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 51 - 100.
Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan: Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior, 2022
Leone, Samuel; Grubman, Nate; Mbarek, Jawaher: Corruption Dynamics in International Trade: Evidence on Bribery and Tax Evasion from Tunisian Customs Transactions, 2022
Lybbert, Travis J; Wydick, Bruce: Hope and Poverty in Development Economics: Emerging Insights and Frontiers, 2022
Miguel, Edward; Palmer, I. Bailey; Rozo, Sandra V; Stillman, Sarah; Smith, Emma; Tamim, Abdulrazzak: The Syrian Refugee Life Study: First Glance, 2022
Muralidharan, Karthik; Niehaus, Paul; Sukhtankar, Sandip: Integrating Biometric Authentication in India’s Welfare Programs: Lessons from a Decade of Reforms, 2022
Robinson, Jonathan; Park, David S; Blumenstock, Joshua E: The Impact of Digital Credit in Developing Economies: A Review of Recent Evidence, 2022
Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura V.: Political Organizations and Political Scope, 2022
Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H; Styczynski, Ashley; Haque, Ashraful; Kabir, Md. Alamgir Kabir; Bates-Jeffries, Ellen et al.: The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh, 2021
Adong, Annet: Armed Conflicts and Forced Displacements: Incentives and Consequences on Consumption and Social Preferences, 2021
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher R.; Blumenstock, Joshua: Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance, 2021
Angelucci, Manuela; Bennett, Daniel: The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India, 2021
Anttila-Hughes, Jesse K.; Jina, Amir S.; McCord, Gordon C.: ENSO Drives Child Undernutritionin the Global Tropics, 2021
Arcidiacono, Peter; Muralidharan, Karthik; Shim, Eun-young; Singleton, John D.: Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers: Part I, 2021
Ashraf, Nava; Field, Erica; Voena, Alessandra; Ziparo, Roberta: Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children, 2021
Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; González, Felipe; Otero, Cristóbal: The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets, 2021
Bando, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul: Another brick on the Wall: On the Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being, 2021
Baral, Siddhartha; Nellis, Gareth; Weaver, Michael: The Electoral Consequences of Mass Religious Events, 2021
Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, Ritwika; Tugume, Esau: Achieving Scale Collectively, 2021
Bassi, Vittorio; Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Porzio, Tommaso; Sorin, Jeanne: Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid it or Adapt in Place?, 2021
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; Sharmin, Sreyashi; Voena, Alessandra: Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment, 2021
Berkouwer, Susanna; Biscaye, Pierre; Hsu, Eric; Kim, Oliver; Lee, Kenneth; Miguel, Edward et al.: Money or power? Financial infrastructure and optimal policy, 2021
Björkegren, Daniel; Blumenstock, Joshua E; Knight, Samsun: Manipulation-Proof Machine Learning, 2021
Blair, Robert A.; Curtice, Travis; Dow, David; Grossman, Guy: Public Trust, Policing, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from an Electoral Authoritarian Regime, 2021
Burlando, Alfredo; Kuhn, Michael A; Prina, Silvia: Too Fast, Too Furious? Digital Credit Delivery Speed and Repayment Rates, 2021
Caria, A. Stefano; Gordon, Grant; Kasy, Maximilian; Quinn, Simon; Shami, Soha; Teytelboym, Alexander: An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan, 2021
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; Voors, Maarten: Long Run Effects of Aid: Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone, 2021
Cassar, Alessandra; Zhang, Y. Jane: The Competitive Woman: Evolutionary Insights and Cross-Cultural Evidence into Finding the Femina Economica, 2021
Chi, Guanghua; Fang, Han; Chatterjee, Sourav; Blumenstock, Joshua E.: Micro-Estimates of Wealth for all Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2021
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul; Carney, Dana: Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills, 2021
Chowdhury, Reajul; Ceballos-Sierra, Federico; Sulaiman, Munshi: Grow the pie or have it? Using machine learning for impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor Graduation Model, 2021
Chowdhury, Reajul; Crost, Benjamin; Hoffmann, Vivian: Marketing Fortified Rice: Effects of Aspirational Messaging and Credibility of Health Claims, 2021
Dar, Manzoor H.; de Janvry, Alain; Emerick, Kyle; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Wiseman, Eleanor: Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture, 2021
Deserranno, Erika; Kastrau, Philipp; León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco: Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector, 2021
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael: The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana, 2021
Dupas, Pascaline; Jain, Radhika: Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India, 2021
Falcao Bergquist, Lauren; McIntosh, Craig: Search Cost, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets, 2021
Finan, Frederico; Mazzocco, Maurizio: Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles, 2021
Gertler, Paul; Green, Brett; Wolfram, Catherine: Digital Collateral, 2021
Gertler, Paul; Heckman, James; Pinto, Rodrigo; Chang-Lopez, Susan M; Grantham-McGregor, Sally; Vermeersch, Christel et al.: Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31, 2021
Harris, J. Andrew; Posner, Daniel N.: Does Decentralization Encourage Pro-Poor Targeting Evidence from Kenya’s Constituencies Development Fund, 2021
Hirshleifer, Sarojini R: Incentives for Effort or Outputs? A Field Experiment to Improve Student Performance, 2021
Huang, Luna Yue; Hsiang, Solomon; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco: Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impactof Anti-Poverty Programs, 2021
Jeong, Dahyeon; Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura V: Rethinking Transparency: Corruption in Local Public Office in India, 2021
Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory; Schönholzer, David: Monitoring in Target Contracts: Theory and Experiment in Kenyan Public Transit, 2021
Magaloni, Beatriz; Gosztonyi, Kristóf; Thompson, Sarah: State-evading Solutions to Violence: Organized Crime and Governance in Indigenous Mexico, 2021
Magaloni, Beatriz; Melo, Vanessa; Robles, Gustavo: Warriors and Vigilantes as Police Officers: Evidence from a field experiment with body-cameras in Rio de Janeiro, 2021
McIntosh, Craig; Zeitlin, Andrew: Cash versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda, 2021
Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq: The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries, 2021
Miguel, Edward: A Tribute to 2019 Economics Nobel Prize Recipient, Professor Michael Kremer, 2021
Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura V: The Workforce of Clientelism: The Case of Local Officials in the Party Machine, 2021