Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low-and middle-
income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which …

Targeted price subsidies create a gap between subsidized and unsubsidized prices. The
resulting dual pricing can lead to arbitrage opportunities where intermediaries divert …

To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a
randomized experiment involving about 6,000 households in Indonesia who are subject to a …

Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low-and middleincome
countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are …

We evaluate a program in Pakistan that equips government health inspectors with a
smartphone app which channels data on rural clinics to senior policy makers. The system …

We compare how in-kind food assistance and an electronic voucher-based program affect
the delivery of aid in practice. The Government of Indonesia randomized across 105 districts …

This paper investigates the tax compliance effects of India's demonetization policy, which
limited cash availability for a short period of time. Using administrative data on firms' tax …

What are the effects of biometric and digital technologies on social protection for the poor in
India? Drawing on ethnographic research from rural Tamil Nadu, this paper presents …

There is growing interest in experiments conducted by researchers and policymakers as a
team. The attraction of these 'embedded experiments' is that they seem to facilitate speedy …

Households in developing countries often face variation in the prices of consumption goods.
We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers will provide insurance benefits …