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1. This bit from page 513 struck me as brilliantly provocative ->

   One worrying piece of evidence comes from the study mentioned above by Fafchamps et al. (2012). They find that in-kind grants are much more effective in increasing profits than cash grants, mainly because the in-kind grants ensure that the resource gets invested rather than spent on other things. This is not necessarily a reason to be concerned—after all, the household could have priorities that do not involve investing—but the authors show that an index of self-control ef- fectively predicts the profits from the cash treatment. Indeed, the profits of the people with the highest self-control who receive the cash grant are no different from the average effect of the grant in kind.

   We so need this study design replicated…