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Banerjee, Abhijit, Angus Deaton, and Esther Duflo (2004). American Economic Review (Papers & Proceedings), 94(2): 326–330
A purpose-built survey of 100 hamlets in Udaipur district: what health, health care and household wealth actually look like in one of India’s poorest areas, and how to measure them.
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Interactive explainer Somanathan, E., Rohini Somanathan, Anant Sudarshan, and Meenu Tewari (2021). Journal of Political Economy, 129(6): 1797–1827
Worker-level data from Indian factories and a national panel of plants: hot days lower output and raise absenteeism, climate control mitigates it, and annual plant output falls with temperature.
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Banerjee, Abhijit V., Esther Duflo, and Rachel Glennerster (2008). Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(2–3): 487–500
An incentive scheme to cut nurse absence in Udaipur worked at first, then was hollowed out by the local administration — a lesson in how implementation can undo a well-designed treatment.