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Teacher Incentives Based on Students' Test Scores in Kenya

Paul Glewwe
Nauman Ilias
Michael Kremer
In partnership with International Child Support, researchers designed and evaluated an incentives program that provided salary bonuses to teachers in Kenya based on the performance of their school as a whole on annual district exams. While results show that the incentives program led to an increase...

Incentives for Nurses in the Public Health Care System in Udaipur, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Researchers worked with the NGO Seva Mandir to measure the impact of an incentives program that aimed to improve Assistant Nurse Midwife (ANM) attendance in rural clinics in Udaipur. Although the incentive program initially led to a large improvement in attendance, effects faded after the first six...
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Improving Youth Employment Opportunities and Reducing Information Barriers through LinkedIn Training in South Africa

Marissa Gargano
Robert Garlick
Eric Johnson
Patrick Shaw
Laurel Wheeler
Researchers conducted an evaluation to test the impact of LinkedIn training on labor market outcomes for young, low-income job seekers in South Africa. Providing LinkedIn training increased end-of-program employment rates by 10 percent (7 percentage points), with effects persisting for twelve months...

Evaluating the Karnataka Integrated Medical Information and Disease Surveillance System (IMIDSS) in Primary Health Centers in India

Iqbal Dhaliwal
Rema Hanna
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Financial and Informational Barriers to Migration in the Philippines

Emily Beam
David McKenzie
Dean Yang

Information and Referrals at the End of Middle School, France

Dominique Goux
Marc Gurgand
Eric Maurin
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Returns to Consulting in the Philippines

Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
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Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from a randomized Medicare payment reform

Researchers evaluated the impact of the mandatory-participation bundled payment model for hospitals and explored which hospitals were incentivized to opt in to bundled payments after the model was later made voluntary. The mandatory-participation bundled payment program produced modest reductions in...