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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
Mathieu Perona
Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
Simone Schaner
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A Multifaceted Approach to Increase Women’s Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci
Rachel M. Heath
Eva Noble
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Impact of Information on the Returns to Education on the Demand for Schooling in the Dominican Republic

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Conditional Cash Transfers in Honduras

Sebastian Galiani
Patrick McEwan
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The Impact of a Women-Specific Credit Scoring Model on Women’s Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic

Laura Chioda
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
Researchers are partnering with a bank and a mobile money operator in the Dominican Republic to evaluate the impact of credit scoring models designed specifically for women on access to credit.

Emergency Savings Accounts for Remittance Receivers in Mexico

Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Researchers partnered with CNS to investigate whether requiring clients to sign a non-binding agreement to save a predetermined amount of each remittance received could increase saving.

Returns to Education and Financial Aid Information for School Selection in Chile

Mattias Busso
Taryn Dinkelman
Claudia Martinez
Dario Romero
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The Impact of Financial Incentives on School Participation in Mexico

Orazio Attanasio
Costas Meghir
Ana Santiago

Boosting Firms’ Productivity in Mexico with Consulting Services

Miriam Bruhn
Dean Karlan
Antoinette Schoar
In Mexico, researchers are testing whether this lagging productivity could be due to lower managerial capacity. They found that providing subsidized managerial consulting to Mexican SMEs boosted their productivity and hiring.

Promoting Handwashing Behavior in Peru: The Effects of Large-Scale Community and School-Level Interventions

Nicolas Ajzenman
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Alexandra Orsola-Vidal
Researchers evaluated the impact of a large-scale handwashing intervention in Peru that introduced an innovative mix of mass media campaigns along with more intensive community activities, including educational sessions for caregivers and a handwashing curriculum in some schools. The program was...