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Constraints to Saving for Health Expenditures in Kenya

Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson
Researchers introduced four savings devices to estimate the relative importance of different potential barriers to health savings. Results indicate that just providing a safe place to keep money led to a large increase in health savings. These results suggest that simply labeling funds for a...
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Returns to Consulting in the Philippines

Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
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Teaching Savings Practices to Ugandan Youth

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
In Uganda, researchers evaluated whether offering financial education or group savings accounts to church-based youth groups increased savings. One year after the intervention ended, they found that total savings and income had increased among youth who were offered financial education, group...
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Providing Entrepreneurship Training and Cash Business Grants to Venezuelan Migrants in Peru

Dean Karlan
Diego Santa Maria
Natalia Rigol
Benjamin Roth
Martin Valdivia
In Peru, researchers are delivering cash grants and business training to Venezuelan migrant entrepreneurs and assessing the impacts on the short- and long-term success of enterprises as well as migrants’ food security, health, and income.
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Safe Spaces with Vocational and Life Skills Training for Young Women's Economic and Social Empowerment in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera
Niklas Buehren
Robin Burgess
Markus Goldstein
Selim Gulesci
Imran Rasul
Munshi Sulaiman
In Uganda, researchers examined the impact of a combination of life skills and vocational training on adolescent girls’ engagement in income-generating activities, control over their bodies, and aspirations. The bundled provision of hard vocational and soft life skills training led to substantial...

Unpacking the Links from Financial Education to Financial Behaviors in India

Fenella Carpena
Shawn Cole
Jeremy Shapiro
Bilal Zia
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of a video-based financial education course on participants’ financial behaviors in India to study which components of financial education programs are most effective. While the course alone had no impact on participants’ abilities to carry out financial...
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Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs in Colombia

Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Marianne Bertrand
Leigh Linden
Francisco Perez-Calle
Juan Saavedra
Researchers in Bogotá, Colombia, evaluated whether changing the timing and type of CCTs could lead to greater impact on educational attainment. All CCT variations had similarly positive impacts on school attendance, but transfers conditional on continued education had a greater impact on secondary...
Teenage school girls participate in an HIV/AIDS prevention program in Kenya.

HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya

Pascaline Dupas
To test the impact of information on teenagers’ sexual decisions, a “Relative Risk Information Campaign” was conducted in 71 schools to give students information about the distribution of HIV infection rates by age and gender groups and discuss the role of cross-generational sex in the spread of HIV...