The 24th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference held in Tokyo.

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The 24th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference on "Experiments for Development: Achievements and New Directions" took place in Tokyo on March 18 and 19, 2013. This meeting was sponsored jointly by: the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London; NBER; the Tokyo Center for Economic Research; and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). Organizers Shinichi Fukuda, University of Tokyo and TCER, Takeo Hoshi, University of California, San Diego and NBER, and Tetsushi Sonobe, GRIPS, chose these papers to discuss:

* David McKenzie, Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, and Markus Goldstein, The World Bank, "Learning from the Experiments that Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa"

* Yukichi Mano, Hitotsubashi University, and Tetsushi Sonobe, "Teaching KAIZEN to Small Business Owners: An Experiment in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi"

* Alistair Munro, GRIPS, and Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona-Gomez, and Arjan Verschoor, University of East Anglia, "Autonomy and Efficiency. An Experiment on...