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Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo. ‘Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan’. The American Economic Review 94.2 (2004): 3–330. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3592904>.

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Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. ‘The Economic Lives of the Poor’. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 21.1 (2007): 141–168. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/30033705>.

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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Shawn Cole, Esther Duflo and Leigh Linden. ‘Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 122.3 (2007): 1235–1264. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25098872>.

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Andrea Ichino and Giovanni Maggi. ‘Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115.3 (2000): 1057–1090. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586903>.

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Angus Deaton. ‘Instruments, Randomization, and Learning about Development’. Journal of Economic Literature 48.2 (2010): 424–455. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/20778731>.

Anne Case and Angus Deaton. ‘School Inputs and Educational Outcomes in South Africa’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114.3 (1999): 1047–1084. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586891>.

Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky and Christina Paxson. ‘Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient’. The American Economic Review 92.5 (2002): 1308–1334. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3083252>.

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Banerjee, Abhijit, and Kaivan Munshi. ‘How Efficiently Is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur’. Review of Economic Studies 71.1 (2004): 19–42. Web.

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Christopher Udry. ‘Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria’. The Review of Economic Studies 61.3 (1994): 495–526. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2297901>.

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David Dollar and Aart Kraay. ‘Growth Is Good for the Poor’. Journal of Economic Growth 7.3 (2002): 195–225. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/40216063>.

David N. Weil. ‘Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 122.3 (2007): 1265–1306. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25098873>.

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Eliana La Ferrara. ‘Kin Groups and Reciprocity: A Model of Credit Transactions in Ghana’. The American Economic Review 93.5 (2003): 1730–1751. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132149>.

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Erica Field. ‘Entitled to Work: Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru’. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 122.4 (2007): 1561–1602. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25098883>.

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