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January 18, 2008 Center for Global Development Blog
"Dani Rodrik has announced that the new paper by Cohen & Dupas presented at CGD last week “vindicates Jeff Sachs.”"
Charity vs Capitalism in Africa
January 02, 2008 Businessweek
"But while the distribution of treated bed nets is a welcome development, many health-care advocates are troubled by how slowly it's happening."
November 11, 2007 Boston Globe
"Charging pregnant women 75 cents for the nets, a common practice, cut distribution within that population by 75 percent, the economists found - and there was no evidence that women who got free nets were any less likely to use them, challenging a central tenet of the social-marketing worldview."
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More than good intentions:
Karlan and Appel combine behavioral economics with worldwide field research that takes them into villages across Africa, India, South America, and the Philippines, where economic theory collides with real life.
