Table of Contents

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

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Summarizes methodological and design issues, presenting principal economic insights delivered by field experiments

About the Author

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.