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Educators and policymakers are facing growing disparities in academic achievement between high and low-income students, differences that appear to have increased as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. A promising cost-effective strategy to address this issue is...

The Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities Project (KYEOP) is a large program led by the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the World Bank (WB), targeting young women and men with no more than a secondary education who are unemployed or working vulnerable jobs...

In Ethiopia, entrenched gender norms continue to prescribe the burden of domestic duties to women, even as many women run their own business. This project studies to what extent the norm that women do the bulk of housework and childcare constrains female-owned...

Approximately one in ten workers participate in non-traditional work arrangements (temporary, on-call, contract, and independent contractors), which often do not include employer-provided benefits. One promising policy solution is a system of portable benefits...

In Compton, California, low-income individuals face high rates of food insecurity, difficulty making timely rent and bill payments, and a poverty rate and unemployment rate over 20 percent. In our project, we plan to test whether and how guaranteed income for...

Combatting the rise of the opioid epidemic is a central challenge of U.S. health care policy. A promising approach for improving welfare and decreasing medical costs of people with substance abuse disorders is offering incentive payments for healthy behaviors...

Motorcycle taxis provide an important means of transportation and support economic livelihoods across Latin America, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, existing moto-taxis are largely petrol-based, with significant negative externalities for both...

Off-grid renewable energy (RE) solutions can be an environmentally friendly, easy, and more reliable source of energy. Yet, even with access to finance under favorable conditions, few micro, small, and medium enterprises might eventually adopt the new...