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Virtual and Face-to-Face Peer Interactions to Improve the Quality of Business Proposals among Entrepreneurs in 49 Countries across Africa

Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil
Charles Brummitt
Tommaso Fornaciari
Dirk Hovy
Paolo Pin
Gaia Rubera
Diego Ubfal
Fernando Vega-Redondo
Researchers compared the effects of face-to-face and virtual peer interaction on the submission and quality of business proposals by individuals from 49 African countries enrolled in an online entrepreneurship course. They found that face-to-face networks and the virtual interaction of groups of...
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Evaluating the Impact of Moving to Opportunity in the United States

Emma Adam
Raj Chetty
Greg Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Nathaniel (Nathan) Hendren
Paul Hirschfield
Lawrence Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey Kling
Jeffrey Liebman
Stacy Tessler Lindau
Jens Ludwig
Thomas W. McDade
Joshua C. Pinkston
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Robert C. Whitaker
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The Impact of Family Planning Training on Private Sector Health Care Performance in Nigeria

Sikiru Baruwa
Minki Chatterji
Doug Johnson
Cynthia Kinnan
Modupe Toriola
Jorge Ugaz
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The Impact of Delayed Wage Payments on Spending and Investment in Malawi

Lasse Brune
Jason Kerwin
Qingxiao Li
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of paying workers on a weekly basis or in one lump sum, as well as of receiving payments in contexts with greater temptation to spend, on their spending and investment decisions. Workers assigned to receive lump-sum wages were more...
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The Impact of Decentralizing Education Spending on Student Learning in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro
Oswald Koussihouede
Nathalie Lahire
Costas Meghir
Corina Mommaerts
Researchers partnered with the Senegalese government to evaluate the impact of a decentralized school grants program on student learning. The program improved test scores overall and for girls in younger grades. The impact was stronger in schools that invested more in human resource training rather...

Using Peer Pressure to Encourage Handwashing in Argentina

Felipe Montaño Campos
Lucía Freira
Matías Gutman
Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino
María Laura Lanzalot
Maximiliano Lauletta
Leandro E. Malchik
Bianca Pacini
Martin Rossi
Cristian Valencia
Dar es Salaam

The impact of financial incentives on female land ownership in Tanzania

Daniel Ayalew Ali
Matthew Collin
Klaus Deininger
Stefan Dercon
Justin Sandefur
Andrew Zeitlin
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of unconditional price discounts and price discounts conditional on including a woman on formal purchased land titles in traditionally informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Price discounts increased demand for formal land...
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Commitment Savings Accounts in the Dominican Republic

Veronica Frisancho
Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Martín Valdivia
Michael (Mike) Yeomans