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How Malleable are Non-Cognitive Skills? Measuring the Impact of Increasing Grit in Turkey

Sule Alan
Teodora Boneva
Seda Ertac
Researchers worked with public elementary schools in Istanbul to measure the effects of a “grit curriculum” on fourth-grade students’ perseverance, competitiveness, and test scores. Students who were exposed to the grit curriculum in 2013 earned higher scores on math exams, and the program also...
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Counseling and Job Placement for Young Graduate Job Seekers in France (Jeunes Diplomés)

Bruno Crépon
Esther Duflo
Marc Gurgand
Roland Rathelot
Philippe Zamora
Career counseling for young, college-educated job seekers in France helped them find work sooner, but this improvement came at the expense of jobs for those who did not receive counseling, and it did not translate into a long-term increase in employment rates.
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Facilitating Youth's Access to Apprenticeships in Tulle (France), and Encouraging Youth to Complete Them

Thomas Le Barbanchon
Bruno Crépon
Marc Gurgand
Roland Rathelot
Philippe Zamora
Researchers evaluated the effect of personalized counseling to French youth on finding an apprenticeship, completing it, and securing longer-term employment. Personalized counseling encouraged more youth to start a pre-apprenticeship training program, but did not improve take-up into apprenticeship...
Woman at job interview reading from paper across from two people in suits.

Impact of Recruiting Services on Firms' Job Postings and Hiring in France

Yann Algan
Bruno Crépon
Dylan Glover
Researchers in France studied whether government-provided recruiting services would impact firms’ job postings and hiring by lowering recruiting costs. The recruiting services decreased firms’ hiring costs and increased firms’ job postings and hiring, including much sought-after permanent-contract...
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Decreasing Mobile Money Vendor Misconduct through Information Sharing in Ghana

Francis Annan
In Ghana, researchers evaluated the impact of providing vendors and consumers with information on official mobile money charges and options for recourse for consumers to report being overcharged. The program led to a decrease in misconduct, which in turn facilitated an increase in market activity...
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Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Maternal Depression in Pakistan

Victoria Baranov
Sonia Bhalotra
Pietro Biroli
Joanna Maselko
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), approximately twenty percent of women who bear children experience depression during pregnancy or in the year after their child’s birthday, called perinatal depression, but they are rarely diagnosed or treated. Researchers evaluated the impact of a...
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Investigating Rural Labor Markets Among the Ultra-Poor in Northern Ghana

Abhijit Banerjee
Dean Karlan
Robert Osei
Hannah Trachtman
Christopher Udry
Jobs seekers talk with employers at a job fair table.

Providing Job Search Information to Improve Job Seekers' Employment and Earnings in Germany

Steffen Altmann
Armin Falk
Simon Jaeger
Florian Zimmermann
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing recently unemployed individuals informational brochures about job search strategies that motivated an active search on their labor market outcomes. Providing informational brochures improved the employment and earnings of...