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A surveyor adds up the numbers in Nairobi, Kenya

The Role of Mobile Banking in Expanding Trade Credit and Business Development in Kenya

Tavneet Suri
Christopher Woodruff
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Evaluating an Exporting Scheme in Tunisia

Giacomo De Giorgi
Aminur Rahman
Eric Verhoogen
To promote export diversification, the Tunisian government is implementing a $22 million export matching-grant scheme, TASDIR+. TASDIR+ aims to increase exports and promote export diversification toward higher value-added exports and new markets. This study is using a randomized controlled trial to...

The Effect of India's Total Sanitation Campaign on Defecation Behaviors and Child Health in Rural Madhya Pradesh, India

Benjamin Arnhold
Bertha Briceno
Sandipan Ganguly
Paul Gertler
John M. Colford Jr.
Sumeet R Patil
Alicia L. Salvatore
Indian man pictured with his family and his wares

Importance of Ethnic Networks in Business Transactions in India

Rajkamal Iyer
Antoinette Schoar
Researchers evaluated whether the ethnicities of wholesale buyers and sellers in Chennai, India, affected the transaction terms. They found that traders offered lower prices to buyers of the same ethnicity, but not necessarily because they trusted them more.
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Evaluating the Impact of Working from Home on Productivity and Work-Life Balance in China

Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying

The Impact of Formal Savings on Salaried Workers’ Spending and Borrowing in Eastern Ghana

Niklas Buehren
Markus Goldstein
Leora Klapper
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz
Robert Osei
Simone Schaner

The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program

Sandra Christenson
Amy Claessens
Ashley Cureton
Mimi Engel
Jonathan Guryan
Ijun Lai
Jens Ludwig
Mary Clair Turner
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The Impact of Mask Distribution and Promotion on Mask Uptake and Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Jason Abaluck
Salim Benhachmi
Jade Benjamin-Chung
Neeti Zaman Bintee
Emily Crawford
Muhammad Maqsud Hossain
Ellen Bates Jefferys
Alamgir Kabir
Laura H Kwong
Stephen Luby
Mushfiq Mobarak
Shadman Rahman
Shabib Raihan
Hasan Mahmud Reza
Ashley Styczynski
Peter J. Winch
Researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and Bangladeshi policymakers to test various strategies to increase mask-wearing and assess the impact of community mask wearing on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. They found that a four-part intervention tripled mask usage and increased physical...