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2015: The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Dean Karlan and Daniel Wood

2014: Saving for a (Not So) Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan and Bram Thuysbaert

2014: To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell and Pia Raffler

2014: Credit, Indebtedness, and Speculation in the Marxian Paradigm: A Reassessment

Miguel Ramirez

2014: Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

2014: Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs

Dean Karlan, Julian Jamison and Jonathan Zinman

2014: Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-generational Support in Urban China

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

2014: Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh Linden

2014: Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Mark R. Roswenzweig and Christopher Udry

2014: Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

Santosh Anagol, Alvin Etang and Dean Karlan

2013: Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Ahmed Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig

2013: Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Stock

Dean Karlan, Adam Osman and Jonathan Zinman

2013: Targeting Ultra-poor Households in Honduras and Peru

Dean Karlan and Bram Thuysbaert

2013: Economic Infrastructure, Private Capital Formation, and FDI Inflows to Hungary: A Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis with Structural Breaks

Zsofia Komuves and Miguel Ramirez

2013: Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda

Dean Karlan, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan and Jonathan Zinman

2013: Communicating with Farmers through Social Networks

Ariel BenYishay and Ahmed Mobarak

2013: Forecasting Profitability

Mark Rosenzweig and Christopher Udry

2013: Escaping Famine through Seasonal Migration

Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury and Ahmed Mushfig Mubarak

2013: The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants

David Atkin

2013: Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2013: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda

Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan and Pia Raffler

2013: Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2013: Problems of Sample-Selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

2013: Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: An Analysis of the Heisei Municipal Amalgamations

Eric Weese

2013: A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Sheilagh Ogilvie

2013: Probability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

2012: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Dean Karlan, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Robert Osei and Christopher Udry

2012: Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Costas Meghir, Renata Narita and Jean-Marc Robin

2012: Labor Surplus Revisited

Gustav Ranis

2012: Vertical and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gustav Ranis

2012: Another Look at Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

2012: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight and Christopher Udry

2012: Incentives That Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

2012: For Every Law, a Loophole: Flexibility in the Menu of Spanish Business Forms, 1886-1936

Timothy Guinnane and Susana Martinez Rodriguez

2012: How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Dean Karlan and John List

2012: Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

2012: Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured

Ahmed Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig

2012: A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment

Dean Karlan, Melanie Morten and Jonathan Zinman

2012: The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar

2012: You Can Pick Your Friends, but You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment

Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2012: Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Dean Karlan and Margaret A. McConnell

2012: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Dean Karlan

2012: Looking beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O Torres, Dean Karlan and Leonard Wantchekon

2011: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

2011: Learning, Misallocation, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from New Malaria Therapy in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu

2011: Equilibrium and Strategic Communication in the Adverse Selection Insurance Model

Gerald D. Jaynes

2011: Social Policy and U.S. Poverty 1960-1999: An Economic History

Gerald D. Jaynes

2011: Is Globalization Inevitable in the Marxian Paradigm?

Miguel Ramirez

2011: Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

2010: Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Great Britain, 1860-1940

Geoffrey Barnes and Timothy Guinnane

2010: Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth

Ryo Horii and Masako Ikefuji

2010: Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig

2010: The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists

Timothy Guinnane

2010: Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy

Mark Pitt, Mark Rosenzweig and Nazmul Hassan

2010: Did the Cooperative Start Life as a Joint-Stock Company? Business Law and Cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1931

Timothy Guinnane and Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

2010: Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman

2010: Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India

David Atkin

2010: Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

Mark Rosenzweig

2010: Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig

2010: Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants

Mark Rosenzweig