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Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) in Ghana

Mathias Fosu
Dean Karlan
Shashidhara Kolavalli
Christopher Udry
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of access to rainfall insurance either coupled with or compared to tailored extension advice, weather forecasts, and improved access to inputs on intensity of land cultivation and earnings for farmers. Preliminary results show that...
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Demand for Rainfall Insurance in India

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test how demand for weather insurance responded to different marketing schemes and price discounts. They found that demand was very price sensitive, but that poor understanding of the product, distrust of insurance agents, and liquidity constraints...
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Migration Subsidies and Rural Labor Markets in Bangladesh

Agha Akram
Shyamal Chowdhury
Mushfiq Mobarak
Researchers varied the proportion of travel grants offered to landless households in rural villages in Bangladesh to assess the impact of the grants on temporary migration and income during the agricultural lean season—one of the hardest economic times of the year due to drops in food affordability...
Seasonal Migrant workers in Indonesia working in construction in urban environment.

Evaluating Transfer Size in a Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Seasonal Migrants in Indonesia

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a cash transfer program conditional on seasonal migration and an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) program on rural households’ decisions to migrate and migration season earnings in West-Timor, Indonesia. Relative to the UCT, the...
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Household Risk Strategies and Conditional Cash Transfers in Nicaragua

Karen Macours
Patrick Premand
Renos Vakis
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the effect of a basic CCT program, as well as two complementary interventions, on households’ vulnerability to irregular weather patterns. Providing households with vocational training or capital grants to generate non-agricultural income helps...
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Cash Transfers and Market Access to Increase Household Welfare in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Shilpa Aggarwal
Jenny Aker
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
David Park
Jon Robinson
Alan Spearot
In Liberia and Malawi, researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action, GiveDirectly, and USAID to evaluate the impact of an unconditional cash transfer and market access program on food security, spending, income, resilience to health shocks, intimate partner violence, and psychological...
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Tablet-Based Financial Education in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Matthew Bird
Lina Cardona-Sosa
Pablo Lavado
Researchers collaborated with Fundación Capital and the Government of Colombia to conduct a randomized evaluation of LISTA, a tablet-based financial education program designed for participants in Colombia's government CCT program, to study its impact on financial knowledge and behavior. LISTA had...

Improving Economic and Psychological Well-being through Unconditional Cash Transfer in Kenya

Johannes Haushofer
Charlotte Ringdal
Jeremy Shapiro
Xiao Yu Wang
In Rarieda, Kenya, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of GiveDirectly’s UCT program on poor rural households’ economic and psychological well-being. Results demonstrated that the program had significant welfare-improving impacts, both economically and psychologically...