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Michael Kremer
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 324
Citations - 33149
Michael Kremer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Incentive. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 294 publications receiving 29375 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Kremer include National Bureau of Economic Research & Center for Global Development.
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Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
Edward Miguel,Michael Kremer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate a Kenyan project in which school-based mass treatment with deworming drugs was randomly phased into schools, rather than to individuals, allowing estimation of overall program effects.
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The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development
TL;DR: In this paper, a production function describing processes subject to mistakes in any of several tasks is proposed, which is consistent with large income differences between countries, the predominance of small firms in poor countries, and the positive correlation between the wages of workers in different occupations within enterprises.
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Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990
TL;DR: The nonrivalry of technology as modeled in the endogenous growth literature implies that high population spurs technological change as discussed by the authors, and the Malthusian assumption that technology limits population predicts that over most of history the growth rate of population will be proportional to its level.
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Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries
TL;DR: Surveys in which enumerators make unannounced visits to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and Uganda and recorded whether they found teachers and health workers in the facilities are reported.
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Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer, and assume some are stochastically present-biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias, such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too impatient to purchase fertilizer.