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Multigenerational Benefits to Secondary Schooling in Ghana

Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer
Elizabeth Spelke
Mark Walsh
A study conducted in Ghana over 15 years evaluated the benefits of secondary school scholarships on both education and health outcomes.
Child having his finger pricked in Bihar, India

Evaluating the Impact on Anemia of Making Double Fortified Salt Available in Bihar, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Sharon Barnhardt
Esther Duflo
In Bihar, India, researchers examined how double fortified salt could be most effectively priced, marketed, and distributed in order to have the greatest impact on a range of health, education, and economic outcomes.
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Price Incentives for Groundwater Conservation in India

Nick Hagerty
Ariel Zucker
Researchers partner with a rural development organization to evaluate financial incentives for voluntary groundwater conservation among smallholder farmers in Gujarat, India.
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Gender Differences in the Workplace: Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory

David Yang
In Tanzania, researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of factory employment and different compensation schemes on gender differences in labor market outcomes, taste for competition, and views on social and gender norms.
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Community-Based Forestry Management to Improve Natural Resource Management and Farming Productivity in Ethiopia

Erwin Bulte
Goytom Abraha Kahsay
Fekadu Tefera Meka
researchers are evaluating the impact of CBFM on farmers’ agricultural productivity, adoption of modern technology, rural livelihoods, and forest conservation.
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The Impact of Role Models on Parental Aspirations and Investments in Children's Education in Ethiopia

Tanguy Bernard
Stefan Dercon
Kate Orkin
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether exposing people to a documentary featuring potential role models impacted parents’ educational aspirations for their children or their actual investments in education, and if these impacts varied by gender. Exposing families to the...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market in the United States

Amira Abulafi
David Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz
Noam Yuchtman
For-profit (and often online) universities account for nearly half of all postsecondary growth over the last decade, yet relatively little is known about how employers value and compare these education types. To test this, researchers randomly submitted resumes with different characteristics and...
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The Effects of STEM Summer Programs on College Major, Persistence, and Graduation for Underrepresented High School Students in the United States

Sarah Cohodes
Helen Ho
Silvia Robles
Researchers evaluated three STEM-focused summer programs for high school students and found that the programs increased students’ likelihood of attending a highly-ranked university, graduating, and earning a degree in STEM.