Michael Kremer’s research while affiliated with University of Chicago and other places

... Seminal work finds human capital and short-term health benefits from mass de-worming (Bleakley, 2007;Miguel and Kremer, 2004). However, the value of large-scale de-worming continues to be debated (Croke et al., 2024;Taylor-Robinson et al., 2019). This study contributes direct evidence on the adult life expectancy and morbidity consequences of childhood de-worming. ...

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Early-life infectious disease exposure, the 'hygiene hypothesis', and lifespan: evidence from hookworm

... Banerjee et al., 2015;Bocher et al., 2017;Tarozzi et al., 2015), particularly when based on entrepreneurial undertakings (e.g., Alvarez & Barney, 2014), and the Nobel Prize awarded to Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer in 2019 for their research on various approaches to reducing poverty also explain the increase in studies on the potential of microfinance and microcredit to produce positive outcomes, such as education and empowerment, in addition to generating wealth (A. V. Banerjee et al., 2016). Several scholars (such as A. Banerjee et al., 2015;Angelucci et al., 2015;Tarozzi et al., 2015) questioned microcredit's ability to work as a tool for development and transformation of society. ...

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Dynamic Interaction Between Microfinance and Household Well-Being: Evidence from the Microcredit Progressive Model for Sustainable Development

... Carney et al. (2022) shows that the endowment effect inhibits demand for loans secured by a borrower's existing assets and that borrowers much prefer loans secured by the asset being financed. Jack et al. (2023) find that a reduction in the down payment on a water tank from 25% to 4% led to a significant increase in take-up with only a modest increase in default rates, which they attribute almost entirely to selection rather than moral hazard. This is in contrast with our findings that securing loans increases repayment primarily by a reduction in moral hazard. ...

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Digital Collateral

... In various countries, rural-urban migration leads to labor shortages in rural agricultural sectors, such as in Vietnam (Bui and Hoang 2021), Thailand (Kwanmuang and Lertjunthuk 2021), Bangladesh (de Brauw et al. 2021), Malawi, and Ethiopia (Mueller et al. 2018). Similarly, labor supply becomes less elastic when workers believe they have superior options (Duflo et al. 2021) or when social stigma associated with farm work makes unemployment more attractive than farm work (Hull 2014;Mabiso and Benfica 2019;Maïga et al. 2015). Consequently, the production of highly labor-intensive crops heavily relies on migrant labor worldwide , Fabry et al. 2022Smith et al. 2022;Taylor and Charlton 2016). ...

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Policy for Decent Work in Agriculture

... Social innovation partnerships imply the co-creation of public knowledge goods by diverse actors using digital technologies and platforms to address educational challenges and opportunities (Peters and Besley, 2022). The exemplar is the Bridge International Academies, a Kenyan network of low-cost private schools that uses a standardized curriculum, delivered through technology-enabled classrooms, and supported by data-driven management in order to provide quality education to children from low-income families across Africa (Gray-Lobe et al., 2022). ...

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Social partnerships among academia, industry, and government in education: a bibliometric analysis

... (2) As already indicated, there is little prior work relating grants to other funding instruments or, more broadly, relating push to pull incentives in science funding. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred greater interest in the question of optimally combining push and pull incentives, perhaps via entirely novel instruments Athey et al., 2022;D'Souza et al., 2024). ...

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Designing Scientific Grants

... ICT is noticed to have an increasing impact on the agricultural sector and on the processes associated with food production (Blurton, 2010). It has been reported by Casaburi et al. (2014) that sending SMS messages with agricultural advice to smallholder farmers increased yields by 11.5% in extension area as against control group with no messages. Further, the large adoption and integration of ICTs has reduced information and transaction costs, improved service delivery, created job opportunities, and generated new revenue streams and saved resources (Anonymous, 2017). ...

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Role of Information and Communication Technology in Agricultural Development of India

... In precision agriculture, drones improve variable-rate application methods, allowing resources to be applied optimally to maximize yields (Taseer, and Han, 2024) [100] . They also facilitate digital extension platforms by obtaining high-resolution images and video for remote training of farmers, knowledge dissemination, and campaigns (Fabregas et al., 2022) [34] . Their principal uses are: ...

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International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development A role of drones and satellite images in agricultural extension: A review 1

... While a growing literature studies the diffusion of agricultural innovation through social networks, the results of existing experimental studies are mixed, suggesting that diffusion may depend on a variety of factors, including the simplicity of the technology (Chandrasekhar et al. 2022), how novel it really is (Bridle et al. 2019), how profitable it is (Magnan et al. 2015), and the identity of the early adopters. 1 Meanwhile, the potential for negative externalities and network externalities has not, to our knowledge, yet been investigated. ...

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Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda

... Vaccine markets present a stronger case for public subsidy than typical markets. Vaccines that prevent infection and transmission provide a positive epidemiological externality, which the recipient of a dose may be unwilling to pay for (see, e.g., Goodkin-Gold et al. 2024). Kremer and Snyder (2015) argue that drugs bought by consumers who have contracted the disease may extract more revenue from consumers than vaccines bought before. ...

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Quantifying the social value of a universal COVID-19 vaccine and incentivizing its development