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Identifying sensitive periods in which the returns to investments into skills are especially high is challenging, but crucial for an effective and efficient timing of parental or public investments aimed at fostering children's skills. We can detect sensitive periods with a novel design by...
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uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the … Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy … in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically …
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, remain open questions. The paper presents a randomized field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. As …
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reports on an experiment that studied the use of construction materials, space configurations, cooking locations, and …
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This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and...
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transfer has a large and positive impact on total and food consumption. There are no differences in the size of the effect of … transfer in cash versus transfers in-kind on consumption. The transfer, irrespective of type, does not affect overall …
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