Heterogeneity Matters: When the average hides what is true for most - Guest post by Jessica Hoel
Kenya
It's Hard To Save at Home
So say 87% of the respondents in a survey used by Dupas and Robinson in an interesting forthcoming paper on what happens when you help people get set up with bank accounts in Kenya. And, as we will see, this problem seems to be particularly acute for women.
Learning from the evaluations that got away – guest post by Matthew Groh.
No one said it’s easy to run a randomized experiment!
Empowering girls through education?
Does improved human capital empower girls? An interesting paper by Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Ted Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton give us some insight into the answers.
Education, fertility and HIV: It’s complicated
An interesting, recently revised working paper by Duflo, Dupas and Kremer looks at the effects of providing school uniforms, teacher training on HIV education, and the two combined. This paper is useful in a number of dimensions – it gives us some sense of the longer term effects of these programs, the methodology is interesting (and informative), and finally, of course, the results are pretty intriguing and definitely food for thought.