Section I. The Challenge of Improving Human Capital 1. Impacts and
Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries 2. The
Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence From
196 Randomized Field Experiments 3. Field Experiments in Education
in Developing Countries
Section II. Designing Effective Social Programs 4. Social Policy:
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations 5. Field Experiments
in Developing Country Agriculture 6. The Personnel Economics of the
Developing State 7. Designing Social Protection Programs: Using
Theory and Experimentation to Understand How to Help Combat Poverty
8. Social Experiments in the Labor Market
Summarizes methodological and design issues, presenting principal economic insights delivered by field experiments
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, and a founder and Director of the Abudl Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. She is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a MacArthur Fellowship. Ford Foundation Professor of Economics, MIT.
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