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The Impact of Commitment Contracts on Workplace Productivity in India

Supreet Kaur
Michael Kremer
Sendhil Mullainathan
Self-control problems can lead people to fall short of their personal and professional goals, often resulting in lower than desired workplace productivity. Researchers, in partnership with an Indian data entry firm, conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether self-control problems existed in...
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Incentives to Save in Ghana

Gharad Bryan
Margaret McConnell
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Relationship Banking in India

Antoinette Schoar

Returns to Physician Human Capital in the United States: Evidence From Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Joseph Doyle
Steven Ewer
Todd Wagner
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Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment in the United States

Dean Karlan
Daniel H. Wood
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The Impact of a Sports for Development Program on Youth Employment in Liberia

Lori Beaman
Sylvan Herskowitz
Niall Keleher
Jeremy Magruder
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High-Quality Schools and Achievement Among the Poor in the United States

Will Dobbie
Roland Fryer

School Grants and Parents' Education Spending in India

Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman
Researchers studied how a school grant program affected learning outcomes and household spending. After the first year of the grant program, students in treatment schools performed significantly better than those in comparison schools, but by the end of the second year, there was no detectable...