This paper conducts a large, narrative review of interventions that might plausibly (a)
increase educational attainment,(b) delay childbearing, and/or (c) delay marriage for …

Most previous studies evaluating agricultural technology adoption focus on estimating
homogeneous average treatment effects across technology adopters. Understanding the …

Digital health interventions (DHIs) hold significant promise for addressing health system
challenges and the 'DHI pilot'is ubiquitous in develo**-country contexts. Because the …

We study the effect of exposure to a refugee worker on firms' hiring of refugees. We conduct
a randomized controlled trial randomly matching local firms with refugee workers. The …

We provide a decision theoretic analysis of bandit experiments under local asymptotics.
Working within the framework of diffusion processes, we define suitable notions of …

Policy decisions often depend on evidence generated elsewhere. We take a Bayesian
decision-theoretic approach to choosing where to experiment to optimize external validity …

We study the impact of a preschool construction program and of two demand-side
interventions in Cambodia. Within this context where other preschools are available, impacts …

Recent studies demonstrate that female leaders can improve gender-specific outcomes
along multiple dimensions through better provision of public goods and legislative changes …

Nearly one-quarter of married, fertile-age women in Sub-Saharan Africa say that they want
to avoid pregnancy but are not using contraceptives. To the best of our knowledge, this …

Social networks are a key ingredient in the process of economic development (Breza, 2016;
Munshi, 2014). A relatively large literature has established that social networks influence …