Paul Gertler
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510/642-1418
E-Mail: 
WWW: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/gertler/
NBER Program Affiliations:
DEV
NBER Affiliation: Research Associate
Institutional Affiliation: University of California at Berkeley
Information about this author at RePEc
NBER Working Papers and Publications
September 2019 | Effect of Inquiry and Problem Based Pedagogy on Learning: Evidence from 10 Field Experiments in Four Countries
with Rosangela Bando, Emma Näslund-Hadley: w26280
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March 2018 | Mortality from Nestlé’s Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
with Jesse K. Anttila-Hughes, Lia C.H. Fernald, Patrick Krause, Bruce Wydick: w24452
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January 2018 | Aspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments
with Sebastian Galiani, Raimundo Undurraga: w24264
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July 2017 | Incentives for Replication in Economics
with Sebastian Galiani, Mauricio Romero: w23576
Published: How to make replication the norm, Nature, Volume 554, 2018, pages 417-419
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| Vulnerability and Clientelism
with Gustavo J. Bobonis, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Simeon Nichter: w23589
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March 2017 | Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off
with Paloma Acevedo, Guillermo Cruces, Sebastian Martinez: w23264
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| How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
with Pierre Bachas, Sean Higgins, Enrique Seira: w23252
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December 2016 | The Effects of Non-Contributory Pensions on Material and Subjective Well Being
with Rosangela Bando, Sebastian Galiani: w22995
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| Books or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital Delivery of Educational Content
with Rosangela Bando, Francisco Gallego, Dario Romero: w22928
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July 2015 | Long Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity
with Pablo Celhay, Paula Giovagnoli, Christel Vermeersch: w21361
Published: Pablo A. Celhay & Paul J. Gertler & Paula Giovagnoli & Christel Vermeersch, 2019. "Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol 11(3), pages 92-127.
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April 2015 | The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to a Large Improvement in Housing
with Sebastian Galiani, Raimundo Undurraga: w21098
Published: Sebastian Galiani, Paul J Gertler, Raimundo Undurraga; The Half-Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-Being of Poor Slum Dwellers to the Satisfaction of Basic Housing Needs, Journal of the European Economic Association, , jvx042, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvx042
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March 2015 | How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence From The Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
with Manisha Shah, Maria Laura Alzua, Lisa Cameron, Sebastian Martinez, Sumeet Patil: w20997
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January 2014 | Non-Contributory Pensions
with Sebastian Galiani, Rosangela Bando: w19775
Published: Galiani, Sebastian & Gertler, Paul & Bando, Rosangela, 2016. "Non-contributory pensions," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 47-58. citation courtesy of 
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November 2013 | Moral Hazard and Economies of Scope in Physician Ownership of Complementary Medical Services
with Brian K. Chen, Chuh-Yuh Yang: w19622
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August 2013 | Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums
with Sebastian Galiani, Ryan Cooper, Sebastian Martinez, Adam Ross, Raimundo Undurraga: w19322
Published: Galiani, Sebastián & Gertler, Paul J. & Undurraga, Raimundo & Cooper, Ryan & Martínez, Sebastián & Ross, Adam, 2017. "Shelter from the storm: Upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 187-213. citation courtesy of 
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June 2013 | Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
with James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Arianna Zanolini, Christel Vermeersch, Susan Walker, Susan M. Chang, Sally Grantham-McGregor: w19185
Published: Science 30 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6187 pp. 998-1001 DOI: 10.1126/science.1251178 Report Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica Paul Gertler1,2,*, James Heckman3,4,5, Rodrigo Pinto3, Arianna Zanolini3, Christel Vermeersch6, Susan Walker7, Susan M. Chang7, Sally Grantham-McGregor8
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May 2013 | How Pro-Poor Growth Affects the Demand for Energy
with Orie Shelef, Catherine Wolfram, Alan Fuchs: w19092
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| Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
with Christel Vermeersch: w19046
Published: Journal of Health Economics Volume 40, March 2015, Pages 1–9 Cover image Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda Damien de Walquea, 1, , , Paul J. Gertlerb, 1, Sergio Bautista-Arredondoc, Ada Kwanc, Christel Vermeerschd, Jean de Dieu Bizimanae, Agnès Binagwahof, Jeanine Condog
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May 2012 | Cash for Coolers
with Lucas W. Davis, Alan Fuchs: w18044
Published: Cash for Coolers: Evaluating a Large-Scale Appliance Replacement Program in Mexico” (with Alan Fuchs and Paul Gertler), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 6, no. 4, November 2014 (pp. 207-38).
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January 2012 | How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?
with Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef: w17747
Published: Catherine Wolfram & Orie Shelef & Paul Gertler, 2012. "How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 26(1), pages 119-38, Winter. citation courtesy of 
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May 1997 | Insuring Consumption Against Illness
with Jonathan Gruber: w6035
Published: Gertler, Paul and Jonathan Gruber. "Insuring Consumption Against Illness," American Economic Review, 2002, v92(1,Mar), 51-70. citation courtesy of 
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April 1994 | Information and the Demand for Supplemental Medicare Insurance
with Roland Sturm, Bruce Davidson: w4700
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December 1990 | Quality Adjusted Cost Functions
with Donald M. Waldman: w3567
Published: "Quality Adjusted Cost Functions and Policy Evaluation in the Nursing Home Industry", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 100, no. 6, December 1992,pp. 1232-1256
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June 1990 | Moral Hazard in Partnerships
with Martin Gaynor: w3373
Published: "Moral Hazard and Risk Spreading in Medical Partnerships," Rand Journal of Economics, Winter 1995, V. 26, #4, pp. 591-613
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February 1989 | Medicaid and the Cost of Improving Access to Nursing Home Care
w2851
Published: Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 74, no. 2, May 1992, pp. 338-345
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November 1987 | The Effect of Mental Distress on Income: Results from a Community Survey
with Richard G. Frank: w2433
Published: "An Assesment of Measurement Error Bias for Estimating the Effect of Mental Distress on Income." From The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. XXVI, No. 1 , pp. 154-164, (Winter 1991).
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June 1987 | Are User Fees Regressive? The Welfare Implications of Health Care Financing Proposals in Peru
with Luis Locay, Warren C. Sanderson: w2299
Published: Journal of Econometrics, Special Issue on Topics in Development Economics, .36, pp.67-88, 1987. citation courtesy of 
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May 1987 | Regulation and the Provision of Quality to Heterogenous Consumers: The Case of Prospective Pricing of Medical Services
with Robin Allen: w2269
Published: Journal of Regulatory Economics, vol. 3, pp. 361-375 December, 1991.
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October 1985 | A Latent Variable Model of Quality Determination
w1750
Published: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 6, pp.97-107, 1988.
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| A Decomposition of the Elasticity of Medicaid Nursing Home Expenditures Into Price, Quality, and Quantity Effects
w1751
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August 1985 | Subsidies, Quality, and Regulation in the Nursing Home Industry
w1691
Published: Journal of Public Economics, Vol.38, pp.33-52, 1989.
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July 1985 | Regulated Price Discrimination and Quality: The Implications of Medicaid Reimbursement Policy for the Nursing Home Industry
w1667
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