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Credit with Health Insurance: Evidence from the Philippines

Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers are examining the impact of offering health insurance through a microfinance institution on clients’ health behaviors and health outcomes, as well as on the institution’s profit, client retention, and default rates.
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Changing Behavior and Nutrition through Health Education in China: Evidence from three randomized evaluations

Renfu Luo
Alexis Medina
Grant Miller
Scott Rozelle
Yaojiang Shi
Linxiu Zhang
Huiping Zhang

Using Peer Pressure to Encourage Handwashing in Argentina

Felipe Montaño Campos
Lucía Freira
Matías Gutman
Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino
María Laura Lanzalot
Maximiliano Lauletta
Leandro E. Malchik
Bianca Pacini
Martin A. Rossi
Cristian Valencia
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Improving Targeting of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation with the Indonesian government that compared self-targeting to automatic screening in the context of a conditional cash transfer program. Requiring households to apply for a cash transfer program in Indonesia discouraged rich households from seeking out...

Evaluating the Effects of Entrepreneurship Edutainment in Egypt

Ghada Barsoum
Bruno Crépon
Paul Dyer
Drew Gardiner
Marwa Moaz
William Pariente
Dar es Salaam

The impact of financial incentives on female land ownership in Tanzania

Daniel Ayalew Ali
Matthew Collin
Klaus Deininger
Stefan Dercon
Justin Sandefur
Andrew Zeitlin
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of unconditional price discounts and price discounts conditional on including a woman on formal purchased land titles in traditionally informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Price discounts increased demand for formal land...
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Commitment Savings Accounts in the Dominican Republic

Veronica Frisancho
Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Martín Valdivia
Michael (Mike) Yeomans
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Energy Conservation through Text Messages and Price Increases in Japan

Takanori Ida
Koichiro Ito
Makoto Tanaka