In peer mechanisms, the competitors for a prize also determine who wins. Each competitor
may be asked to rank, grade, or nominate peers for the prize. Since the prize can be …

I study a simple equity-efficiency problem: A designer allocates a fixed budget of money to
agents differing in privately observed marginal values for money. She can only screen by …

Decentralised governance has been widely adopted in developing countries in the hope of
incorporating local information into policymaking, enhancing accountability and …

In the context of antipoverty programs, what are the benefits of marginal investments in
interventions targeting soft skills or psychological well-being compared with direct economic …

Targeting is an important but challenging process in the design and delivery of social and
humanitarian assistance programs. Community-based targeting (CBT) approaches are often …

Social protection programs are essential to assisting the poor, but governments
andhumanitarian agencies are rarely resourced to provide aid to all those in need, so …

Identifying the poorest and neediest households to receive limited social program resources
remains a challenge in many low-income countries. These countries often lack the types of …

This paper studies the question of how to target aid after a natural disaster. Disaster aid
programs often use property damage as a criterion for eligibility. A household's ability to …