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AFFILIATIONS

■  Affiliate, BREAD

■  Faculty Research Fellow, NBER

■  Research Affiliate, CEPR

■  Affiliate, J-PAL

■  Affiliate, IPA

■  Affiliate, CEGA

 

 

 

 

 

 

STANFORD UNIVERSITY  DEPARTMENT OF

 

E C O N O M I C S

 

 

PASCALINE DUPAS

Assistant Professor

579 Serra Mall

Stanford, CA 94305

pdupas at stanford dot edu

 

 

RESEARCH

 

> WORKING PAPERS

>> HEALTH

■   Short-Run Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption of New Health Products: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      [PDF] Revised February 2012.

 

■    Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment (with Jessica Cohen and Simone Schaner)

      [PDF] October 2011.

 

■    The (Hidden) Costs of Political Instability: Evidence from Kenya's 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Revised December 2011. 

 

■    Global Health Systems: Pricing and User Fees

      [PDF] June 2011. Prepared for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics

 

>> SAVING

■    Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] Revised February 2012; NBER Working Paper #17255.

 

■    Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF]  Revised October 2011; NBER Working Paper #14693

  

■    Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province (with Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF] February 2012. Prepared for NBER Africa Project Conference Volume

 

>> EDUCATION

■    Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer)

      [PDF] August 2011.

 

■    School Governance, Teacher Incentives and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer)

      Revised version coming soon

      (Previously circulated as "Additional Resources versus Organizational Changes in Education: Experimental Evidence from Kenya " and various other titles...)

 

 

> PUBLICATIONS

■   Inferring Welfare Maximizing Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints (with Debopam Bhattacharya)

      [PDF] Accepted, Journal of Econometrics

 

■    Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco (with Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, William Pariente and Vincent Pons)

      [PDF]  Accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

 

■    Health Behavior in Developing Countries

      [PDF]  Annual Review of Economics Vol. 3, pp. 425-449, September 2011.

 

■    Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya (with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer)

      [PDF] [Web Appendix]  American Economic Review 101(5), pp. 1739-74, August 2011.

 

■    Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

      [PDF]   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (1), pp.1-36, January 2011.

      (Previously circulated as "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar  Daddies, and HIV in Kenya")

 

■   Coping with Political Instability: Micro Evidence from Kenya’s 2007 Election Crisis (with Jonathan Robinson)

      [PDF]  American Economic Review P&P 100(2):120-124, May 2010.

 

■   Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment (with Jessica Cohen)

      [PDF]  [Web Appendix] Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (1), pp.1-45, February 2010.

          

■   What matters (and what does not) in households' decision to invest in malaria prevention?

      [PDF]  American Economic Review P&P  99(2): 224-230, May 2009.

 

 

> OLD STUFF

■   The Impact of Conditional In-Kind Subsidies on Preventative Health Behaviors: Evidence from Kenya

      [PDF]  July 2005

 

■  Comparing the Paths of the Unemployed in France and the United States (with Daniel Cohen)

      [PDF]  (in French)  Economie et Statistique, 2000, vol. 332-333, pp.17-26.

 

 

TEACHING

 ■   ECON 215: Development Economics II. (Graduate Level. Scheduled Spring 2012)