We wish to thank Tasso Adamopoulos, Kevin Donovan, Doug Gollin, Selim Gulesci, Gunther Fink, Kelsey Jack, Paul Niehaus, Diego Restuccia, Mark Rosenzweig, Nick Ryan, Eric Verhoogen, and seminar audiences at Barcelona Summer Forum, Basel, Ben Gurion, BREAD, Cambridge, CEPR/Misum/SITE, Cattolica Milan, Columbia, Japan Empirical Economics Seminar, LEAP, Naples, Northwestern, NOVAFRICA, NYU Abu Dhabi, Oxford, Paris-Dauphine, PSE, Sciences Po, STEG, University of Southern California, Tilburg, Tinbergen, Trinity College Dublin, TSE, USC, Venice, Williams and Yale for useful comments. We thank Carol Nekesa, Winnie Ariya, Kadoro Mwaniki, Winfred Sakwa, and the entire REMIT team for their excellent work in managing the field activities. We are grateful to Nikolas Anic, Muhammad Bashir, Philippe Brügger, Maria Cedro, Hamza Husain, Malavika Mani, Nicholas Oderbolz, Flurina Schneider, and especially Jack Skelley for excellent research assistance. Lorenzo Casaburi wishes to acknowledge funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 181127) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 851961). The experiment was registered at the AEA RCT registry, ID AEARCTR-0004530. All errors are our own. We declare that we have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.