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Assessing the Effectiveness of Alternative Text Messages to Improve Collection of Delinquent Fines in the United Kingdom

Rory Gallagher
Donald Green
Laura Haynes
Peter John
David Torgerson
The collection of delinquent fines is a massive public administrative challenge. In the United Kingdom for instance, unpaid court fines amounted to more than £600 million in 2011. Managing noncompliant accounts and dispatching bailiffs to collect fines in person is costly. Researchers used a...
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The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nick Ryan

The Effect of Election Day Festivals on Voter Turnout in the United States

Elizabeth Addonizio
James Glaser
Donald Green

Socio-Emotional Learning for At-Risk Students in Urban Schools in Lima

Paul Gertler
Ines Kudo
A Rohingya woman sits with her two children in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Psychosocial Support to Improve Mental Health and Child Development Among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh

Tanvir Ahmed Mozumder
Tabassum Rahman
Tanvir Shatil
Abu Siddique
Researchers evaluated the impact of a psychosocial support program on mental health and child development among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Results showed that the support program improved the mental health of mothers and children and led to improvements in early childhood development.
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Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Voting in Honduras

Elizabeth Linos
In this randomized evaluation in Honduras, researchers assessed how the national Programa de Asignación Familiar (Family Allowance Program) CCT program, which provided a combination of transfers to households and transfers to support public goods, influenced voting in local and national elections...
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The Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
Christopher Larimer
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The Role of Protest Experience and Social Networks in Protest Movements in Hong Kong

Leonardo Bursztyn
Davide Cantoni
David Yang
Noam Yuchtman
Y. Jane Zhang
In Hong Kong, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of indirectly incentivizing protest participation on sustained participation in a political movement and to identify the role social networks play in protest turnout. Indirectly incentivizing participants to attend a...