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Mobile Phone-Based Extension Services and Agricultural Advice for Cotton Farmers in Gujarat, India

Shawn Cole
A. Nilesh Fernando
Researchers introduced a mobile phone-based agricultural extension service to evaluate its impact on knowledge and adoption of effective farming methods among cotton farmers in Gujarat, India. They found that the service was highly effective in nudging farmers to adopt a number of recommended...
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Mejorando la enseñanza de las matemáticas para los niños de Perú

Mariana Alfonso
Francisco Gallego
Emma Naslund-Hadley
Row of empty polling stations

Social Pressure and Voter Turnout in the United States

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
Christopher Larimer
To study the effect of increased social pressure on turnout, researchers sent households one of four randomly selected mailings eleven days before Michigan’s August 2006 primary election. All four mailings increased turnout, but informing households of their neighbors’ past voting records raised...
A girl receives voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) during a school-based health outreach event

Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) to Reduce Risky Sexual Behaviors and Increase Schooling Investments in Malawi

Sarah Baird
Erick Gong
Craig McIntosh
Berk Ozler
Researchers introduced a Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing (VCT) program to young females in Malawi to determine whether the program affects risky sexual behavior and school performance. They found no overall effect of VCT on risk of sexually transmitted infections or achievement test scores...
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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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Phone-Based Tutoring to Support Learning during School Closures: Evidence from Five Countries

Micheal Ainomugisha
Noam Angrist
Sai Pramod Bathena
Peter Bergman
Colin Crossley
Claire Cullen
Thato Letsomo
Moitshepi Matsheng
Rene Marlon Panti
Shwetlena Sabarwal
Tim Sullivan
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of delivering educational content via mobile phones on student learning in five countries. Mobile-based instruction, especially through phone call tutorials, improved foundational learning...