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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...
Man smiles while counting money

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...
Man with glasses and dark hair looks at computer screen while speaking into headset building relationship with bank client

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...

J-PAL Africa Project Incubation Fund – 2017 Round

J-PAL Africa, located in SALDRU in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, has a pool of funds to support researchers to carry out exploratory research work on policy relevant questions related to South Africa. This work should lead to the development of a full research proposal for...
Woman stands in rice paddy

The Impact of Drought-Tolerant Rice on Local Labor Markets in India

Ceren Baysan
Manzoor H. Dar
Kyle Emerick
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Researchers are testing the impact that stress-tolerant seeds, which have better yields than conventional varieties under weather shocks, affect landless laborers.
Person looks at resume by a laptop

The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market

Amira Abulafi
David Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz
Noam Yuchtman
For-profit (and often online) universities account for nearly half of all postsecondary growth over the last decade, yet relatively little is known about how employers value and compare these education types. To test this, researchers randomly submitted resumes with different characteristics and...