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NBER Working Paper No. 21405 ---- Acknowledgments ---- We are especially grateful to Michael Kremer for his involvement as a collaborator in the early stages of this project and for subsequent discussions. We thank Brian Chan, Veena Das, Ranendra Kumar Das, Diana Tabak and Manoj Mohanan for their contribution to designing and implementing the SP methodology, and thank Eun-Young Shim for her contribution to the theoretical appendix. We thank Prashant Bharadwaj, Gordon Dahl, Roger Gordon, Gordon Hanson, and Paul Niehaus for comments. We are grateful to Innovations for Poverty Action, CT, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta and the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi for hosting the project and providing logistical support and infrastructure. We also thank Sreela Dasgupta, L. Ravi and Anvesha Khandelwal for project management support, and Monisha Ashok, Carl Liebersohn, Prerna Mukharya, Suzanne Plant and Anand Shukla for excellent research assistance. The project would not have been possible without the dedication of our SPs and Purshottam, Rajan Singh, Devender, Charu Nanda, Simi Bajaj, Geeta and other staff at Institute of Socioeconomic Research on Democracy and Development (ISERDD) in Delhi. The Social and Rural Research Institute (SRI), New Delhi oversaw data collection of all other aspects other than SPs. This study was funded by the Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through Grant No. 50728 and the Knowledge for Change Program at the World Bank. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its executive directors, the governments they represent, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
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