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Credit Elasticities in Less Developed Countries: Implications for Microfinance (June 2008) American Economic Review, forthcoming, joint with Jonathan Zinman.
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Social and Economic Correlates of Depressive Symptoms and Perceived Stress in South African Adults (June 2008) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62, pp. 522-531, joint with Rita Hamad, Lia Fernald, and Jonathan Zinman.
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When Curiosity Kills the Profits: An Experimental Examination (May 2008) Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming, joint with Julian Jamison.
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Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions (March 2008) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming, joint with Alan Gerber, Daniel Bergan.
- Baseline Survey
- Followup Survey
- Appendices: Newspaper Coverage Tables
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Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment (December 2007) American Economic Review, 97(5), pp. 1774-1793, joint with John List.
- NYTimes article
- Chronicle of Philanthropy article
- NY Times Magazine article
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Lying about Borrowing (December 2007) Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming, joint with Jonathan Zinman.
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Community Size and Network Structure (May 2007) American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97(2), pp. 80-85, joint with Hunt Alcott, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Adam Szeidl.
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Social Connections and Group Banking (February 2007) Economic Journal, 117, pp. F52-F84.
- Data
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (May 2006) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(2), pp. 635-672, joint with Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin. Winner of TIAA-CREF 2006 Paul A. Samuelson Award Certificate of Excellence.
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Deposit Collectors (March 2006) Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 6(2 Article 5), joint with Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin.
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Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions (December 2005) American Economic Review, 95(5), pp. 1688-1699.
- Data
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Working Papers
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Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment (July 2008) Econometrica, round four, joint with Jonathan Zinman.
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What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment (May 2008), joint with Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman. Previously titled "What's Psychology Worth?...".
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Adaptive Experimental Design using the Propensity Score (April 2008), joint with Jinyong Hahn and Keisuke Hirano.
- Stata ado files and documentation
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Female Empowerment: Further Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (March 2008), joint with Nava Ashraf, Wesley Yin.
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Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Savings Account for Smoking Cessation (February 2008), joint with Xavier Gine and Jonathan Zinman.
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There's Something about Ambiguity (Halloween paper) (February 2008), joint with Santosh Anagol, Sheree Bennett, Gharad Bryan, Tiffany Davenport,Nancy Hite, Paul Lagunes and Margaret McConnell.
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Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions To Estimate the Impacts (January 2008), joint with Jonathan Zinman. Winner of 2006 USAID Private Sector Development Impact Assessment Initiative.
- The Economist article
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Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya (January 2008), joint with Nava Ashraf and Xavier Gine.
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Peer Monitoring and Enforcement: Long Term Evidence from Microcredit Lending Groups with and without Group Liability (January 2008), joint with Xavier Gine.
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To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments (January 2008), joint with Julian Jamison, Laura Schechter.
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Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines (May 2007), joint with Xavier Gine.
- Bloomberg news article
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact Of Business Training On Microfinance Clients and Institutions (November 2006), revise and resubmit Review of Economics and Statistics, joint with Martin Valdivia.
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Microfinance Games (May 2006), joint with Xavier Gine, Pamela Jakiela, Jonathan Morduch.
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Policy Papers
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Is Microfinance Too Rigid? (December 2007) VoxEU, joint with Sendhil Mullainathan.
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Cross Sectional Impact Analysis: Bias from Dropouts (December 2007), joint with Gwendolyn Alexander-Tedeschi.
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The Impact of Microfinance: A Review of Methodological Issues (November 2007) World Bank Doing Impact Evaluation Series, 7, joint with Nathanael Goldberg.
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Participation in a School Incentive Program in India (April 2007) Journal of Development Studies, forthcoming, joint with Sharon Barnhardt and Stuti Khemani.
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Optimizing Loan Contracting and Marketing Stategies Using Field Experimentation (November 2006) prepared for the 2006 Microcredit Summit, joint with Jonathan Zinman.
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Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Controlled Trials: Examples from Business Training and Group versus Individual Liability (July 2006), joint with Tomoko Harigaya and Sara Nadel.
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Evaluating Microfinance Program Innovation with Randomized Control Trials: An Example from Group versus Individual Lending (March 2006) Asian Development Bank Economics and Research Department Technical Note Series, 16, joint with Joint with Xavier Gine, Tomoko Harigaya and Binh Nguyen.
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SEED: A Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines (December 2004), joint with Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin.
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Testing Savings Product Innovations Using an Experimental Methodology (November 2003) Asian Development Bank Technical Note Series, 8, joint with Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin.
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A Review of Commitment Savings Products in Developing Countries (July 2003) Asian Development Bank Economics and Research Development Working Paper, 45, joint with Nava Ashraf, Nathalie Gons and Wesley Yin.
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Microfinance Impact Assessments: The Perils of Using New Members as a Control Group (December 2001) Journal of Microfinance.
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Book Chapters
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Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemptions (with Alan Krueger), in Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption, edited by K. Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl, forthcoming 2006, Princeton University Press.
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