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We thank Chitraleka Choudhary, Joe Madiath and Sojan Thomas of Gram Vikas for many discussions. Gram Vikas had no role in the design or execution of this paper. Silvia Robles, Shobhini Mukerji, Stefanie Stantcheva, Niveditha Subramanian and, especially, Joe Shapiro provided outstanding research assistance. We thank Maureen Cropper, Bryan Hardy, Dan Stuart and Stephanie Rennane and seminar participants at Columbia University, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland for helpful comments. Raymond Guiteras gratefully acknowledges funding from the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship and the George and Obie Schultz Fund. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.