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A young boy gets his hemoglobin measured in Udaipur, India

Reducing Anemia Through Iron Fortification of Grain in Udaipur, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Researchers in Udaipur, India, evaluated the impact of a village-level iron fortification program on the physical health of local families in 134 villages. Despite high take-up rates at the beginning of the study, overall take-up rates fell by the end of the evaluation. Results showed a significant...

The Impact of Risk Information on Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Knowledge in Cameroon

Pascaline Dupas
Elise Huillery
Juliette Seban
In Cameroon, researchers evaluated the impact of various HIV prevention interventions delivered through schools on girls and young women’s exposure to risk. The interventions decreased the incidence of pregnancy (a marker for unprotected sex) in the following nine to twelve months by over 25 percent...

Introducing Financial Services to Native Amazonians in Bolivia

Ricardo Godoy
Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Harry Patrinos
Jonathan Zinman
Centering on one native Amazonian society (Tsimane’) and partnering with a Bolivian non- profit, researchers evaluated the impact of providing Tsimane’ households with lockboxes on their savings activity, consumption, and well-being. Providing lockboxes increased household financial assets but had...
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Constraints to Saving for Health Expenditures in Kenya

Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson
Researchers introduced four savings devices to estimate the relative importance of different potential barriers to health savings. Results indicate that just providing a safe place to keep money led to a large increase in health savings. These results suggest that simply labeling funds for a...
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Returns to Consulting in the Philippines

Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
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Teaching Savings Practices to Ugandan Youth

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
In Uganda, researchers evaluated whether offering financial education or group savings accounts to church-based youth groups increased savings. One year after the intervention ended, they found that total savings and income had increased among youth who were offered financial education, group...
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Providing Entrepreneurship Training and Cash Business Grants to Venezuelan Migrants in Peru

Dean Karlan
Diego Santa Maria
Natalia Rigol
Benjamin Roth
Martin Valdivia
In Peru, researchers are delivering cash grants and business training to Venezuelan migrant entrepreneurs and assessing the impacts on the short- and long-term success of enterprises as well as migrants’ food security, health, and income.
A young girl waits in a health center in Uganda.

Safe Spaces with Vocational and Life Skills Training for Young Women's Economic and Social Empowerment in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera
Niklas Buehren
Robin Burgess
Markus Goldstein
Selim Gulesci
Imran Rasul
Munshi Sulaiman
In Uganda, researchers examined the impact of a combination of life skills and vocational training on adolescent girls’ engagement in income-generating activities, control over their bodies, and aspirations. The bundled provision of hard vocational and soft life skills training led to substantial...