The Replication Program at 3ie accepts applications for replications of influential, innovative, and controversial evaluations from a list of candidate studies. The list includes topics in land reform, dams, agricultural extension, water delivery, and others related to agriculture and natural resources.
The Replication Program at 3ie accepts applications for replications of influential, innovative, and controversial evaluations from a list of candidate studies. The list includes topics in land reform, dams, agricultural extension, water delivery, and others related to agriculture and natural resources.
The objective of the grants is to improve the quality of evidence available for development policy making and program design. 3ie aims to make 5-10 awards of up to US$15 thousand each.
The list of candidate topics (to be updated periodically) is reproduced below:
- Angrist, Joshua, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, and Michael Kremer. "Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment." American Economic Review 92, no. 5 (2002): 1535-58.
- Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2 (2006): 635-72.
- Banerjee, Abhijit, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo, and Leigh Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (2007): 1235-64.
- Besley, Timothy, and Robin Burgess. "Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, and Growth: Evidence from India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, no. 2 (2000): 389-430.
- Burgess, Robin, and Rohini Pande. "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment." American Economic Review 95, no. 3 (2005): 780-95.
- Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra, and Esther Duflo. "Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India." Econometrica 72, no. 5 (2004): 1409-43.
- Coleman, Brett. "The Impact of Group Lending in Northeast Thailand." Journal of Development Economics 60, no. 1 (1999): 105-41.
- Dercon, Stefan, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, and Tassew Woldehanna. "The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91, no. 4 (2009): 1007-21.
- Duflo, Esther, and Rohini Pande. "Dams." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 2 (2007): 601-46.
- Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson. "Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya." American Economics Journal: Applied Economics (Forthcoming).
- Fajnzylber, Pablo, William Maloney, and Gabriel Montes-Rojas. "Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Evidence from the Brazilian Simples Program." Journal of Development Economics 94, no. 2 (2011): 262-76.
- Galiani, Sebastian, Paul Gertler, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality." Journal of Political Economy 113, no. 1 (2005): 83-120.
- Galiani, Sebastian, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling." Journal of Public Economics 94, no. 9-10 (2010): 700-29.
- Jensen, Robert. "The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare in the South Indian Fisheries Sector." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (2007): 879-924.
- McKenzie, David, John Gibson, and Steven Stillman. "How Important Is Selection? Experimental Versus Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration." Journal of the European Economic Association 88, no. 4 (2006): 913-45.
- Miguel, Edward, and Michael Kremer. "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities (2004)." Econometrica 72, no. 1 (2004): 159-217.
- Mu, Ren, and Dominique van de Walle. "Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam." Journal of Development Studies 47, no. 5 (2011): 709-34.
- Olken, B. A. "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia." Journal of Political Economy 115, no. Part 2 (2007): 200-49.
- Rivera, Juan, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, Jean-Pierre Habicht, Teresa Shamah, and Salvador Villalpando. "Impact of the Mexican Program for Education, Health, and Nutrition (Progresa) on Rates of Growth and Anemia in Infants and Young Children: A Randomized Effectiveness Study." Journal of the American Medical Association 291, no. 21 (2004): 2563-70.
- Schultz, T. Paul. "School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program (2004)." Journal of Development Economics 74, no. 1 (2004): 199-250.
- Smith, KR, JP McCracken, MW Weber, A Hubbard, A Jenny, LM Thompson, J Balmes, et al. "Effect of Reduction in Household Air Pollution on Childhood Pneumonia in Guatemala (Respire): A Randomised Controlled Trial." Lancet 378 (2011): 1717-26.
- Svensson, Martina Björkman and Jakob. "Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda." Quarterly Journal of Economics 124, no. 2 (2009): 735-69.
- Thirumurthy, Harsha, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Markus Goldstein. "The Economic Impact of Aids Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya." Journal of Human Resources 43, no. 3 (2006): 511-52.
Information about how to apply is included in the announcement. The application deadline is 31 July 2012.