Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?
- by Pande, Rohini; Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; Topalova, Petia
- Female leadership remains strikingly low in most democracies, and voter preferences are
often suggested as a likely explanation. In this paper, we present experimental evidence
from India which...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: February 2008 More
- The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance
- by King, Gary; Imai, Kosuke; Nall, Clayton
- A basic feature of many field experiments is that investigators are only able to randomize
clusters of individuals—such as households, communities, firms, medical practices, schools,
or...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: January 18, 2008 More
- Normalizing Industrial Policy
- by Rodrik, Dani
- The theoretical case for industrial policy is a strong one. The market failures that industrial policies target—in markets for credit, labor, products, and knowledge—have long been at the core of...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: 2008 More
- Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities?
- by Khwaja, Asim
- The lack of "social capital" is increasingly forwarded as an explanation for why communities
perform poorly. Yet, to what extent can these community-specific constraints be compensated?...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: December 2007 More
