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The impacts of recruiting committee gender composition on women’s employment outcomes in Spain

Manuel Bagues
Berta Esteve-Volart

Communal Sanitation Solutions for Urban Slums in Orissa, India

Sharon Barnhardt
Judy Chevalier
Mushfiq Mobarak
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Identifying Information Asymmetries in a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
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The Effects of Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Burkina Faso

Adrien Bouguen
Markus Frölich
Estelle Koussoubé
Eugenie Maiga

Sending Text Messages to Parents to Improve Student Achievement in Middle and High Schools in the United States

Peter Bergman
Eric W. Chan

School Grants and Parents' Education Spending in India

Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman
Researchers studied how a school grant program affected learning outcomes and household spending. After the first year of the grant program, students in treatment schools performed significantly better than those in comparison schools, but by the end of the second year, there was no detectable...
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Increasing Tuberculosis Detection through Incentivized Peer Referrals in India

Pradeep Chintagunta
Jessica Goldberg
Mario Macis
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of peer referrals by current patients on the screening and identification of tuberculosis cases in India. Peer referrals and outreach by current patients to identified peers were more effective than health-worker led contact-tracing...
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Train the Trainer: Promoting Savings by Training Banking Business Correspondent Agents in Andhra Pradesh

Shawn Cole
Laura Litvine
Santadarshan Sadhu