Esther Duflo
Papers
The following is a list of recent papers. For a complete list and earlier papers, please see the cv.
The Miracle of Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
April 2013
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan
Women Empowerment and Economic Development
December 2012
Do labor market policies have displacement effects? Evidence from a clustered randomized experiment
November 2012
with Bruno Crepon, Marc Gurgand, Roland Rathelot and Philippe Zamora
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
June 2012
with Abhijit Banerjee
Human values and the design of the fight against poverty
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Harvard University, May 2012
The Diffusion of Microfinance
April 2012
with Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Matthew O. Jackson
The Diffusion of Microfinance data
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
April 2012
with Rema Hanna and Michael Greenstone
School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools
March 2012
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
February 2012
with Abhijit Banerjee and Nancy Qian
Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
February 2012
with Abhijit Banerjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Daniel Keniston and Nina Singh
Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India
January 2012, Science Magazine
with Lori Beaman, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova
Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
September 2011
with Florencia Devoto, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons
Comparative Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Policy in Developing Countries
August 2011
with Iqbal Dhaliwal, Rachel Glennerster and Caitlin Tulloch
Education, HIV and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya.pdf
August 2011
with Pascaline Dupas, Michael Kremer
Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
March 2011
with Bruno Crepon, Florencia Devoto, William Pariente
Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates.pdf
Novemer 2010
with Alix Zwane, Jonathan Zinman, Eric Van Dusen, William Pariente, Clair Null, Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, Dean Karlan, Richard Hornbeck, Xavier Giné, Florencia Devoto, Bruno Crepon and Abhijit Banerjee
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
October 2010
with Michael Kremer, Jonathan Robinson
Improving Immunization Coverage in Rural India: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Evaluation of Immunization Campaigns with and without Incentives
May 2010
with Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster and Dhruva Kothari
Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
May 2010
with Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan
Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
March 2010
with Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer
Giving Credit Where it is Due
March 2010
with Abhijit Banerjee
Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
2009
with Abhijit Banerjee, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune
The Experimental Approach to Development
September 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee
Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education In India
August 2008
wtih Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
July 2008
with Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Rohini Pande
and Petia Topalova
Mandated Empowerment
June 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee
How High are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya
May 2008
with Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson
Indoor Air Pollution, Heatlh and Economic Well-being
February 2008
with Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna
Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
2008
with Michael Kremer
Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
August 2007
with Abhijit Banerjee
Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
October 2008
with Abhijit Banerjee, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Tim Watts
Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
December 2006
with Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer
The Economic Lives of the Poor
October 2006
with Abhijit Banerjee
Updated Table (March 17, 2008) for Economic Lives of the Poor and What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?
with Abhijit Banerjee
with Abhijit Banerjee
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
August 2007
with Abhijit Banerjee, Shawn Cole and Leigh Linden
Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
November 2006
with William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag and Emmanuel Saez
Field Experiments in Development Economics
January 2006
Esther Duflo
Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics
December 2005
with Abhijit Banerjee
Dams
July 2005
with Rohini Pande
Addressing Absence
May 2005
with Abhijit Banerjee
Why Political Reservations
May 2005
Esther Duflo
Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India
October 2004
with Petia Topalova
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
September 2004
with Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
August 2004
with Abhijit V. Banerjee
Banking Reform in India
June 2004
with Abhijit Banerjee and Shawn Cole
Wealth, health, and health services in rural Rajasthan
May 2004
with Abhijit Banerjee and Angus Deaton
Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan
February 2004
with Abhjit Banerjee and Angus Deaton
The Impact of Reservation in the Panchayati Raj: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment
February 2004
wtih R. Chattopadhyay
Scaling Up and Evaluation
January 2004
Esther Duflo
Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness
July 2003
with Michael Kremer
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
June 2003
with Christopher Udry
Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?
June 2003, Revised
with Abhijit Banerjee
How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?
June 2003, Revised
with Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand
Poor but Rational?
January 2003
Esther Duflo
The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
January 2003
with Emmanuel Saez
A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Inequality and Growth: Comment
December 2002
with Abhijit Banerjee
The (mis)allocation of capital
September 2002
with Abhijit V. Banerjee and Kaivan Munshi
The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality: Do Fathers Really Matter less than Mothers?
March 2002
with L. Breierova
Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa
November 2000
Esther Duflo
The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia
October 2000
Esther Duflo
Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
May 2000
Esther Duflo
Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
March 2000
Esther Duflo
Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry
January 2000
with Abhijit Banerjee
Indian Software Industry Questionnaire
Esther Duflo
2000
Child Health and Household Resources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program
AEA Meeting
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