NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions

We thank J. Baland, C. Barrett, A. Birkenbach, E. Dugoua, E. Fenichel, L. Grant, E. Heesemann, P. Jagger, D. Kaczan, T. Kuran, F. Libois, R. Meeks, B. Murray, J. Orgill-Meyer, J. Peters, N. Ryan, S. Sanders, and seminar participants at AERE 2016, SEA 2016, CECFEE 2016, EAERE 2017, the 2017 Occasional Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, EfD 2017, CSAE 2018, WCERE 2018, MWIEDC 2020, Cornell University, University of Gothenburg, International Food Policy Research Institute, London School of Economics, University of Michigan, University of Namur, RWI–Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Tolouse School of Economics, University of Wyoming, and Yale School of the Environment for valuable comments. This study was made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and was partially funded by USAID under Translating Research into Action, Cooperative Agreement GHS-A-00-09-00015-00. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Usmani also gratefully acknowledges support from the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University Energy Initiative, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. The field experiment described in this study is registered in the AEA Registry for Randomized Controlled Trials (AEARCTR-0003400). The study protocol was reviewed and approved by Duke University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB Protocol A0946); informed consent was obtained from all participating households. Any remaining errors are our own.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01217.