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Incentives to Save in Ghana

Gharad Bryan
Margaret McConnell

Research and Impacts of Digital Financial Services

NBER
A new paper describes recent evidence on what works for financial inclusion and identifies products and innovations that address key financial market failures facing poor households. Written by J-PAL affiliates Dean Karlan, Rohini Pande, Tavneet Suri, Jonathan Zinman, and co-authors, this paper also...
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Relationship Banking in India

Antoinette Schoar
Researchers evaluated whether the intensity of personalized interaction between borrowers and loan officers in India influenced borrowers’ repayment behavior. They found that clients with personal relationship managers at the bank had better repayment behavior but were not more satisfied with their...
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Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) in Sierra Leone

Oriana Bandiera
Niklas Buehren
Markus Goldstein
Imran Rasul
Andrea Smurra
Researchers evaluated the impact of a program in Sierra Leone called Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) that aims to address this problem by bundling health education, vocational skills training, and micro-credit. Researchers found that, while girls experienced higher teen pregnancy...
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Access to Credit and the Scale-Up of Biometric Technology in Malawi

Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang
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The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Learning Outcomes in the United States

Joshua Angrist
Susan Dynarski
Thomas Kane
Parag Pathak
Christopher Walters
Researchers examined the impact of time spent at a charter school on students’ learning outcomes in Lynn, Massachusetts. Results suggest that enrollment at a charter school significantly improved students’ test scores in both math and English language arts.
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How Does Winning the Lottery Affect Labor Supply? Evidence from Sweden

David Cesarini
Erik Lindqvist
Matthew Notowidigdo
Robert Östling
Researchers used data on lottery winners in Sweden to determine whether receiving an influx of cash affected the labor supply decisions of winners and their spouses. They found that lottery winners reduced their labor supply, suggesting that cash transfers can have an effect on labor market outcomes...
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The Effect of a Contract Teacher Program Scale-up on Student Learning in Kenya

Tessa Bold
Mwangi Kimenyi
Germano Mwabu
Alice Ng’ang’a
Justin Sandefur
In Kenya, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a contract teacher program on student learning outcomes, comparing implementation between an NGO and the government. The NGO-led program improved student test scores, while the government-led version had no impact.