Working Papers

"Street smart or school smart? The arithmetic skills of working children in two Indian cities"
with Abhijit V. Banerjee, Swati Bhattacharjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Alejandro J. Ganimian, Kailash Rajah, and Elizabeth S. Spelke
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The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India
Working paper, August 2024
with Abhijit Banerjee, Louis-Mäel Jean, Daniel Keniston, and Nina Singh

Voters’ Awareness of Social Insurance Programs Impacts Electoral Candidature: Experimental Evidence from India
Working paper, August 2024
with Abhijit Banerjee, Clement Imbert and Rohini Pande

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Working paper, July 2024
with Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza and Cynthia Kinnan

Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Working Paper, July 2024
with Pascaline Dupas, Elizabeth Spelke and Mark Walsh

The Impact of Secondary School Subsidies on Career Trajectories in a Dual Labor Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Working Paper, June 2024
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda
Working Paper, May 2023
with Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri and Céline Zipfel

Blue Spoons: Sparking Communication About Appropriate Technology Use
Working paper, August 2022
with Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Michael Kremer, João Pugliese, Jonathan Robinson and Frank Schilbach

Messages on Covid-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of their Communities
Working Paper, July 2020
with Abhijit Banerjee, Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Abhijit Chowdhury, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin A. Olken

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plan for RCTs in Economics
Working Paper, April 2020
with Abhijit Banerjee, Amy Finklestein, Lawrence F. Katz, Benjamin A. Olken, Anja Sautmann

Verifying the internal validity of a flagship RCT: A review of Crepon, Devoto, Duflo and Pariente : a rejoinder
Working paper, June 2019
with Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, and William Parienté
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Human values and the design of the fight against poverty
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Harvard University, May 2012

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
June 2003
with Christopher Udry