Research
Working Papers
Not Playing Favorites: Parents Equalize Their Children's Opportunities, with Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Maulik Jagnani. Updated October 2022. Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Experimental Scripts.Pricing Private Education in Urban India: Demand, Use, and Impact , with Priya Mukherjee. Updated February 2019.
Publications
See my Dataverse with raw and replication data for many projects.
Titles link to published versions of papers; links are direct when copyright allows. For published papers that are not directly downloadable, pre-publication versions are linked below.
When Student Incentives Do Not Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi, with Hyuncheol Kim and Hyuk Son. Journal of Development Economics, September 2022. 158(2022).
Appendices.Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Inputs, Monitoring, and Crowd-out in School-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from India's Midday Meals Program, with Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, Hannah Ruebeck, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. Journal of Public Economics, December 2021, 204.
Appendices.Downloadable Pre-publication Version.J-PAL Evaluation Summary.VoxDev Post.Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, But How You Teach, with George Orlov, Douglas McKee, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones, and Jörg Stoye. Economics Letters, May 2021, 202.
Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Implementation and Effects of India's National School-Based Iron Supplementation Program, with Saurabh Mehta, Priya Mukherjee, Hannah Ruebeck, and Gauri Kartini Shastry. Journal of Development Economics, May 2020, 144(2020).
Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana, with Greg Fischer and Raymond Guiteras. Journal of Political Economy, April 2020, 128(4): 1436-1473.
Online appendices, sales scripts, and replication files (via Dataverse).Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Failure of Frequent Assessment: An Evaluation of India’s Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Program, with Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji, and Marc Shotland. Journal of Development Economics, March 2020, 123(2020).
Data and Replication Files (via Dataverse).Downloadable Pre-publication Version.VoxDev Interview.The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana, with Dean Karlan and Menno Pradhan. World Development, February 2018, 102(2018):71-89.
Data and Replication files (via Dataverse)Online Materials.Downloadable Pre-publication Version.From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application, with Rukmini Banerji, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji, Marc Shotland, and Michael Walton. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017, 31(4): 73-102.
World Bank Development Impact Blog post (by David Evans).Surveys and data (via Dataverse).More information on TaRL and scale-ups at the Teaching at the Right Level website.Companion working paper: Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of "Teaching at the Right Level" in India, with Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji, Marc Shotland, and Michael Walton. Draft, August 2016.
The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India, with Rukmini Banerji and Marc Shotland. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2017, 9(4): 303-337.
Online Appendices.Surveys and data (via Dataverse).J-PAL Evaluation Summary; World Bank Development Impact Blog post (by David Evans); article on IndiaSpend.com.Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics, with Lucas Coffman, Rania Gihleb, Douglas Hanley and Alistair Wilson. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2017, 107(5):27-31.
Child Control in Education Decisions: An Evaluation of Targeted Incentives to Learn in India, Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2015, 50(4): 1051:1080.
Online Appendices.Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Taken with a Grain of Salt? Micronutrient Fortification in South Asia, with Priya Mukherjee and Gauri Kartini Shastry. CESifo Economic Studies, June 2012, 58(2): 422-449.
Downloadable Pre-publication Version.Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia, with Nava Ashraf and Jesse Shapiro. American Economic Review, December 2010, 100(5): 2283-2413.
Online Appendices. Supplement on Alternative Uses of Clorin. Surveys and Marketing Script.Replication Data (zip).Work in Progress
Informing Students about Schooling: A Large-Scale Field Experiment in the Dominican Republic , with Lucas Coffman, Daniel Morales and Chris Neilson.
Educational Mismatch and Motivational Messages, with Giacomo Di Giorgi, Chris Neilson, and Sebastián Otero.