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Assessing the Impact of Microcredit in Ethiopia

Jaikishan Desai
Kristin Johnson
Alessandro Tarozzi
Villagers gather around a survey team in Lempira, Honduras.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Honduras

Sebastian Galiani
Patrick McEwan
Youth at the Bavarian State Opera House in Munich, Germany.

Charitable Giving by Corporations and Aristocrats in Germany

Vittorio Bassi
Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul
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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.
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Financial Education vs. Access to Finance Among Filipino Migrants

Paolo Abarcar
Rashmi Barua
Dean Yang

International remittances are an important financial tool for many developing countries, and many organizations offer financial products or financial education services to help families manage the remittances they receive. Researchers provided families with financial products and financial education...

Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, researchers evaluated the impact of different selling schemes on demand for water testing, and the impact of test results on switching to a safer well. Although group test sales and well safety placards increased substantially the likelihood that households switched to a possibly...

Training Informal Healthcare Providers to Improve the Quality of Care in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Chowdhury
Jishnu Das
Reshmaan Hussam
Informal healthcare workers with little to no training provide more than 70 percent of all primary care in rural India. In this study, researchers evaluated the impact of a nine-month training...
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Community-Based Monitoring of Primary Healthcare Providers in Uganda

Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Jakob Svensson
Damien de Walque
Researchers conducted two randomized evaluations in the health sector in Uganda to evaluate whether community monitoring could impact public health worker performance and subsequent health utilization and outcomes. They found community monitoring, when combined with information on health provider...