Conducting rigorous evaluations of whether the process of creating new institutions affects their performance of mandated duties presents several challenges. Not only is assignment to process often not random, but when the process of creating new institutions starts, outcomes and other performanc...
Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Price, Joseph P.G.
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Horbulyk, Theodore M.
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[Impacts assessments without true baselines: assessing the relative effects of training on the performance of water user associations in southern Tajikistan]
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Impacts assessments without true baselines: assessing the relative effects of training on the performance of water user associations in southern Tajikistan
We conducted a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to examine how household drinking-water choices were affected by two different messages about risk from naturally occurring groundwater arsenic. Households in both randomized treatment arms were informed about the arsenic level in the...
Bennear, L.
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Tarozzi, A.
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Pfaff, A.
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Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Ahmed, K.M.
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Geen, A. van
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[Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh]
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Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh
In recent years, the Government of Nepal has increased the amount of revenue it collects from hydropower operations and then distributes among districts and regions of the country. Larger, wealthier districts, which receive larger amounts of general revenues from the central government, also rece...
Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Giordano, Mark
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Wichelns, Dennis
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Sherpa, T.
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[Sharing hydropower revenues in Nepal, over time and across districts and regions]
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Sharing hydropower revenues in Nepal, over time and across districts and regions