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Women carrying food in Tanzania.

Promoviendo sexo seguro en Tanzania

Ramadhani Abdul
Faraji Abilahi
Matthieu Alexandre
William Dow
Erick Gong
Zachary Isdahl
Boniphace Jullu
Suneeta Krishnan
Albert Majura
Carol A. Medlin
Edward Miguel
Jeanne Moncada
Sally Mtenga
Mathew Alexander Mwanyangala
Rose Nathan
Laura Packel
Julius Schachter
Kizito Shirima
Damien de Walque
Ugandan vocational students are sewing, using the skills they gained at a vocational training institute.

Meet Your Future – The Effect of Mentoring Ugandan Vocational Students on Employment and Earnings

Livia Alfonsi
Mary Namubiru
Sara Spaziani
In Uganda, researchers introduced a mentoring program to evaluate the impact of interactions between young, successful vocational training graduates and current vocational training students on their employment status and earnings. Students who received mentoring were more likely to be working three...
man cuts plants

Superando las transferencias monetarias condicionadas en República Dominicana

Greg Fischer
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
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The Impact of Nursery Quality, Empowerment, and Nutrition Interventions on Early Childhood Development and Women’s Employment in Egypt

Bruno Crépon
Caroline Krafft
AbdelRahman Nagy
Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a package of interventions with the aim of improving the quality of nurseries, enhancing nutrition, and empowering women to address poverty and promote early childhood development in Egypt.
People use escalators in train station in China

Evaluating the Impact of Working from Home on Productivity and Work-Life Balance in China

Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying
A Kenyan mother and her child smile as they learn from books

The Impact of Informational Meetings on Secondary School Choice in Kenya

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of short informational meetings with students and parents on secondary school choice. They found that these meetings increased students’ and parents’ knowledge of the application process and led students to pick lower-cost and more...

Voting and Habit Formation in the United States

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
Ron Shachar
During the 1998 state and federal elections and the 1999 city elections in New Haven, Connecticut, researchers found that face-to-face canvassing and direct mail appeals significantly increased voter turnout not only during the election year but also in the election a year after.

Interest Rate Subsidies and Savings Behavior in Kenya

Simone Schaner
A randomized evaluation in rural Kenya found that offering higher short-term interest rates on a savings account substantially increased bank account use two and a half years for after the promotional rate ended. Offering the interest rate promotion on individual bank accounts also increased...