Browsing by Author "Kremer, Michael"

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    • Schools, Teachers, and Education Outcomes in Developing Countries 

      Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2005-09)
      Eighty percent of the world's children live in developing countries. For economists working on education, the study of developing countries offers both policy questions of fundamental importance and a rich set of experiences ...

    • Targeting health subsidies through a nonprice mechanism: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya 

      Dupas, P.; Hoffmann, V.; Kremer, Michael Robert; Zwane, A. P. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016)
      Free provision of preventive health products in the developing world can dramatically increase access. A concern about free provision is that people who receive health products for free may not use them, with associated ...

    • Three Field Experiments on Incentives for Health Workers 

      Lee, Scott S. (2015-05-19)
      The economic study of incentives in firms has traditionally focused on one type of incentive—pecuniary—and one causal mechanism—the direct effect of incentives on effort. This dissertation uses three randomized field ...

    • Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit 

      Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-12)
      This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, ...

    • Water and Human Well Being: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition 

      Zwane, Alix Peterson; Kremer, Michael; Meeks, Robyn (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009-11)
      The Executive Session on Water and Human Well Being was convened by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Venice International University on July 20–21, 2009. This high-level gathering was organized to create a ...

    • What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review 

      Zwane, Alix Peterson; Kremer, Michael (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)
      The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting ...

    • When is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity 

      Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-01)
      We argue that in pharmaceutical markets, variation in the arrival time of consumer heterogeneity creates differences between a producer’s ability to extract consumer surplus with preventives and treatments, potentially ...

    • Why is There No AIDS Vaccine? 

      Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher M. (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2004-10)
      We argue that differences in timing of drug and vaccine consumption will lead firms to be biased against developing vaccines. Vaccines are sold before consumers are infected, when they still have private information regarding ...