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Cash Transfers and Market Access to Increase Household Welfare in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Shilpa Aggarwal
Jenny Aker
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
David Park
Jon Robinson
Alan Spearot
In Liberia and Malawi, researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action, GiveDirectly, and USAID to evaluate the impact of an unconditional cash transfer and market access program on food security, spending, income, resilience to health shocks, intimate partner violence, and psychological...
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Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice: A Field Experiment of Informational Interventions in the United States

Researchers evaluated the impact of several informational interventions with different modes of delivery and customization levels on high school choice outcomes among middle school students in New York City. All interventions made students less likely to rank a low graduation rate high school as...
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The Role of Students' Mindset in Improving Educational Outcomes in France

Yann Algan
Adrien Bouguen
Axelle Charpentier
Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
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Selective Trials for Agricultural Technology Adoption and Experimentation in Kenya

Sylvain Chassang
Pascaline Dupas
Catlan Reardon
Erik Snowberg
Nerica rice

Improving Yields and Health through a High-Yielding Rice Variety (NERICA) in Sierra Leone

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Individualized Reminders to Increase Teacher Loan Forgiveness Uptake in the United States

Brian Jacob
Damon Jones
Benjamin J. Keys
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Eliminating Behavioral Barriers to Saving through a Tablet App for the Base of the Pyramid in Paraguay

Viviane Azevedo
Jeanne Lafortune
Liliana Olarte
José Tessada

Transport Subsidies and Job Matchmaking in South Africa

Abhijit Banerjee
Sandra Sequeira
In sub-Saharan Africa, youth unemployment is expected to reach 50 percent by 2025. One reason for high unemployment among this group is that youth may live geographically far from where many jobs are located, making traveling to search for employment difficult and expensive. Researchers conducted a...