Search Results - subject:"Randomized Control Trials"

Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Program evaluation with high-dimensional data

Belloni, Alexandre; Chernozhukov, Victor; … - 2015 - This version: September 20, 2015

control trials. In the latter case, our approach produces efficient estimators and honest bands for (functional) average … the special case of exogenous receipt of treatment, either conditional on controls or unconditionally as in randomized …

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Can solar lanterns improve youth academic performance? : experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Kudo, Yuya; Shonchoy, Abu; Takahashi, Kazushi - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 33 (2019) 2, pp. 436-460

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Unconditional transfers and tropical forest conservation : evidence from a randomized control trial in Sierra Leone

Wilebore, Beccy; Voors, Maarten; Bulte, Erwin H.; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 894-918

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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - In: Journal of development economics 140 (2019), pp. 186-202

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Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education

Aker, Jenny - 2013

The recent wave of randomized trials in development economics has provoked criticisms regarding external validity. We investigate two concerns—heterogeneity across beneficiaries and implementers—in a randomized trial of contract teachers in Kenyan schools. The intervention, previously shown...

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Practice prize report : the 2016 ISMS Gary Lilien Practice Prize Competition

Roberts, John H. - In: Marketing science 37 (2018) 5, pp. 685-687

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The new gold standard : the rise of randomized control trials and experimental development

Webber, Sophie; Prouse, Carolyn - In: Economic geography 94 (2018) 2, pp. 166-187

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Welfare programs and labor supply in developing countries: Experimental evidence from Latin America

Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; Ripani, Laura - 2012

This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural areas: Mexico's PROGRESA, Nicaragua's RPS and Honduras' PRAF. Comparable results...

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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; Ripani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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