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1062: Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?

Lori Beaman, Ariel BenYishay, Jeremy Magruder and Ahmed Mobarak

1061: Capital Structure and the Choice of Enterprise Form: theory and history

Timothy Guinnane and Jakob Schneebacher

1060: Inter-Sectoral Terms of Trade and Investible Surplus

Mohsen Fardmanesh

1059: Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig

1058: Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Orazio Attanasio, Costas Meghir and Emily Nix

1057: Partnership as Experimentation: Business Organization and Survival in Egypt, 1910-1949

Cihan Artunç and Timothy Guinnane

1056: Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa

Michael Konig, Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

1055: Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

Dean Karlan, Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal

1054: External Validity in a Stochastic World

Mark Rosenzweig and Christopher Udry

1053: Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures

Francesco Trebbi and Eric Weese

1052: Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Costas Meghir, Orazio Attanasio and Emily Nix

1051: Women and Agricultural Productivity: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

Cheryl Doss

1050: Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence From Meiji Japan

Eric Weese, Masayoshi Hayashi and Masahi Nishikawa

1049: Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886-1936

Timothy Guinnane and Susana Martinez Rodriguez

1048: The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Dean Karlan, James Berry and Menno Pradhan

1047: Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Costas Meghir, Corina Momaerts, Pedro Carneiro, Oswald Koussihouede and Nathalie Lahire

1046: Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Costas Meghir, Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons and Marta Rubio-Codina

1045: The Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm Growth

Dean Karlan and Greg Fischer

1044: Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on: Evidence from Bank Overdrafts in Turkey

Sule Alan, Dean Karlan, Mehmet Cemalcilar and Jonathan Zinman

1043: Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day: A Ramdomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan and Bram Thuysbaert

1042: Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

1041: To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell and Pia Raffler

1040: Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs

Dean Karlan, Julian Jamison and Jonathan Zinman

1039: Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter- Generational Support in Urban China

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

1038: The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Dean Karlan and Daniel Wood

1037: Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh Linden

1036: Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Mark Rosenzweig and Christopher Udry

1035: Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Mark Rosenzweig and Ahmed Mobarak

1034: Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock

Dean Karlan, Adam Osman and Jonathan Zinman

1033: Targeting Ultra-poor Households in Honduras and Peru

Dean Karlan and Bram Thuysbaert

1032: Escaping Famine through Seasonal Migration

Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury and Ahmed Mobarak

1031: Continued Existence ofr Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?

Dean Karlan, Santosh Anagol and Alvin Etang

1030: Communicating with Farmers through Social Networks

Ariel BenYishay and Ahmed Mobarak

1029: Forecasting Profitability

Mark Rosenzweig and Christopher Udry

1028: The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants

David Atkin

1027: Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda

Dean Karlan, Aishwarya Ratan and Jonathan Zinman

1026: Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

1025: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Testing Service in Uganda

Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan and Pia Raffler

1024: Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

1023: Problems of Sample-selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

1022: Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: An Analysis of the Heisei Municipal Amalgamations

Eric Weese

1021: A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Sheilagh Ogilvie

1020: Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

1019: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

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

1018: Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Costas Meghir, Renata Narita and Jean-Marc Robin

1017: Vertical and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity

Gustav Ranis

1016: Labor Surplus Revisited

Gustav Ranis

1015: Another Look at Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

1014: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight and Christopher Udry

1013: Incentives that saved lives: Government regulation of accident insurance associations in Germany, 1884-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb