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Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs for Child Learning in India

James Berry
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Encouraging Savings through SMS Messages in the Dominican Republic

There is a growing body of evidence on the efficacy of SMS reminders to encourage banking clients to save more. Researchers in the Dominican Republic partnered with savings and credit institution Banco Unión to conduct two randomized evaluations of tailored SMS reminders.
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Peter Bergman
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Simplification, Assistance, and Incentives: A Randomized Experiment to Increase College Savings

Eric Bettinger
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The Generalizability of Social Pressure Effects on Turnout Across High-Salience Electoral Context: Field Experimental Evidence from 1.96 Million Citizens in 17 States

Alan Gerber
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Experimental Evidence of Professor Engagement on Student Outcomes

Scott Carrell
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Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers

Will Dobbie

The impact of case management on community college persistence and graduation in the United States

William (Bill) Evans
Melissa Kearney
At a community college in Fort Worth, Texas, researchers evaluated a comprehensive case management program called Stay the Course, which included mentoring and emergency financial assistance (EFA), and measured the impact of these services on students’ academic outcomes, including persistence in...