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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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Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India
TL;DR: The effects of exposure to malaria in early childhood on educational attainment and economic status in adulthood by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s are examined.
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Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide experimental evidence on the impact of tracking primary school students by initial achievement in the presence of positive spillover effects from academically proficient peers, tracking may be beneficial for strong students but hurt weaker ones.
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How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that increased sorting people into internally homogeneous neighborhoods, schools, and marriages is spurring long run inequality, and the Calibration of a formal model suggests that these fears are misplaced.
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How Much does Sorting Increase Inequality
TL;DR: This paper showed that the steady-state standard deviation of education would increase only 1.7 percent if the correlation between neighbors' education doubled, and would fall only 0.6 percent if educational sorting by neighborhood disappeared.
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Peer effects in drug use and sex among college students
TL;DR: It is found that males who reported binge drinking in high school drink much more in college if assigned a roommate who also binge drank in high high school than if assign a nonbinge-drinking roommate.