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Microfinance to Increase Social Capital and Female Empowerment in India

Benjamin Feigenberg
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Shayak Sarkar

Reducing Teen Smoking and Drinking through Increased Schooling in the Dominican Republic

Robert Jensen
Adriana Lleras-Muney
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The Impact of Enhanced Business Training for High-Potential Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Antoinette Schoar

Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance in China

Jing Cai
Adam Szeidl

Can facilitating relationships between small- and medium-sized businesses help them grow? In Jiangxi Province, China, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the impact of business relationships on firm performance. Monthly meetings among firms increased sales, profits, and other...

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The Use of Self-Help Groups as a Savings Commitment Device in Chile

Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz

Financial Literacy, Access to Finance, and the Effect of Being Banked in Indonesia

Shawn Cole
Thomas Sampson
Bilal Zia
Researchers worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia and the Microfinance Innovation Center for Resources and Alternatives to measure the impact of incentives and financial education on savings account take-up. Results indicated that the financial education program was not an effective tool for promoting...
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Discrimination in Grading in India

Rema Hanna
Leigh Linden
Researchers used a randomized evaluation to test for discrimination in grading in India. They found that teachers gave exams that were assigned to be lower caste worse scores than those that were assigned to be high caste.

Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of sending text message reminders to clients holding programmed savings accounts.