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View article: Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix it
Striking the Right Balance: Why Standard Balance Tests Over-Reject the Null, and How to Fix it Open
View article: When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools
When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools Open
View article: Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs
Navigating Ambiguity: Imprecise Probabilities and the Updating of Disease Risk Beliefs Open
View article: Replication Data for SCLB
Replication Data for SCLB Open
These are the replication files of the paper entitled: "Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention", published in the Journal of Econometrics.
View article: How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought
How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought Open
Temptation plays a key role in theoretical work on spending and saving in developing countries. The limited empirical evidence on its importance, however, suggests that cash transfers do not induce increases in temptation spending. This pa…
View article: How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought
How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought Open
Temptation plays a key role in theoretical work on spending and saving in developing countries. The limited empirical evidence on its importance, however, suggests that cash transfers do not induce increases in temptation spending. This pa…
View article: Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention Open
We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy pro-gram in northern Uganda.The program increases test scores by 1.40 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact standard deviation e…
View article: Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors
Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors Open
Health behaviors are plagued by self-control problems, and commitment devices are frequently proposed as a solution. We show that a simple alternative works even better: appointments. We randomly offer HIV testing appointments and financia…
View article: Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa
Health knowledge and non-pharmaceutical interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa Open
View article: Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments Open
We study a simple savings scheme that allows workers to defer receipt of part of their wages for three months at zero interest. The scheme significantly increases savings during the deferral period, leading to higher post-disbursement spen…
View article: Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments Open
We study a simple savings scheme that allows workers to defer receipt of part of their wages for three months at zero interest.The scheme significantly increases savings during the deferral period, leading to higher post-disbursement spend…
View article: You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation
You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation Open
Directly eliciting individuals' subjective beliefs via surveys is increasingly popular in social science research, but doing so via face-to-face surveys has an important downside: the interviewer's knowledge of the topic may spill over ont…
View article: Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors
Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors Open
View article: Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments Open
View article: Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention Open
View article: Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments Open
View article: Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa Open
Providing health information is a non-pharmaceutical intervention designed to reduce disease transmission and infection risk by encouraging behavior change.But does knowledge change behavior?We test whether coronavirus health knowledge pro…
View article: Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures Open
This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the choices of inputs and outcome measures, using a randomized evaluation of a mother-tongue literacy program. The program raises reading scores by 0.64SDs…
View article: Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi
Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi Open
This paper studies workplace peer effects by randomly varying work assignments at a tea estate in Malawi. We find that increasing mean peer ability by 10 percent raises productivity by 0.3 percent. This effect is driven by the responses of wo…
View article: Replication Data for: You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation
Replication Data for: You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation Open
Replication data for "You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation", forthcoming at Demography.
View article: Replication Data for: Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi
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This is the replication data for the paper "Peers and Motivation at Work: Evidence from a Firm Experiment in Malawi"
View article: Replication Data for: Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures
Replication Data for: Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures Open
Kerwin, Jason T., and Thornton, Rebecca L., (2021) “Making the Grade: The Sensitivity of Education Program Effectiveness to Input Choices and Outcome Measures.” Review of Economics and Statistics 103:2, 251–264.
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