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Rapid urbanization is straining electricity grids in many developing countries. Nigeria boasts high connectivity rates, but actual electricity access is much lower—the average electricity connection only functions a third of the time. Many households rely on...

Participatory development emphasizes a bottom-up approach focusing on community control over planning and implementation decisions to improve development outcomes. We propose to assess the value of community participation in the location choice and...

Globally, nearly three billion people cook with traditional stoves and fuels. These inefficient and polluting energy sources produce one-quarter of all black carbon emissions globally. Household air pollution also represents the largest energy-related health...

Many Americans, in particular low-income individuals, suffer from common mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety at one point in their lives without receiving any treatment. Besides direct consequences of mental illnesses on well-being, even moderate...

In developing contexts where the state’s reach and credibility are limited, social media could help connect citizens with government and shape pro-social behaviors by informing and encouraging citizen action. These phenomena are especially important during the...

Female labor force participation in rural India has declined since the early 2000s, likely due to a combination of norms and job mismatch–in particular, lack of access to part-time work and work outside of agriculture. Recent declines in the cost of...

In this project we propose to examine the long-term impact of a randomized government-sponsored apprenticeship program in Ghana. In 2013, the Ghanaian government launched the National Apprenticeship Programme (NAP), which was targeted at youth who are unable...

We propose to study the long-term impacts (8-year follow-up) of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) program implemented at scale as a two-arm RCT among Ugandan youth. SEED is an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program modeled...