Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Author "Banerjee, Abhijit"

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    • Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema N.; Mullainathan, Sendhil (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter ...

    • The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials 

      Ho, Lisa; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Stanford, Fatima; Fior, Renato; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Holland, Kelly; Hoppe, Emily; Jean, Louis-Maël; Ogbu-Nwobodo, Lucy; Olken, Benjamin A.; Torres, Carlos; Vautrey, Pierre-Luc; Warner, Erica; Duflo, Esther (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-11)
      COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In ...

    • Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia 

      Hanna, Rema N.; Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Olken, Benjamin A. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      We use a unique data-set from Indonesia on what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure ...

    • Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Pande, Rohini (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-07)
      This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment, ...

    • Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa? 

      Banerjee, Abhijit; Galiani, Sebastian; Levinsohn, Jim; Woolard, Ingrid (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-10)
      We document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. We describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in employment is due to structural changes in the economy ...