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Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep? A Field Experiment in the United States

Lucas Coffman
Clayton R. Featherstone
Judd Kessler
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Examining Citizens' Response to Promises of Government Service Delivery in Pakistan

Ali Cheema
Asim Khwaja
Farooq Naseer
Jacob Shapiro
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Inefficient Hiring in Online Labor Markets

Amanda (Mandy) Pallais
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Improving Job Safety: The Impact of Providing Information to Firms and Workers in Chile

Francisco Brahm
Jeanne Lafortune
Marcos Singer
José Tessada
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Displacing Substandard and Counterfeit Antimalarial Drugs in Uganda

Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Jakob Svensson
David Yanagizawa-Drott
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Savings Account Labeling and Financial Literacy Training for Susu Customers

Damon Jones
Dean Karlan
Edward Kutsoati
Margaret McConnell
Christopher Udry

Using Encouragement to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Saving in Peru

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers examined the impact of an initiative to promote savings, through financial incentives, reminders, and messaging, on the savings behavior of the urban poor in Peru. Preliminary results found that the initiative increased the probability that clients reached their savings goals; negatively...
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Attracting Talented Workers by Reducing Application Costs in Ethiopia

Girum Abebe
Stefano Caria
Esteban Ortiz-Ospina
Researchers partnered with an employer in Addis Ababa to assess the impact of a small monetary incentive to apply for a job or a higher wage offer on the quality of applicants to a vacancy for a clerical position. Both of these changes increased the quality of applicants by similar amounts.