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Assessing the effect of conditional cash transfers on pregnancy outcomes in France

Marc Bardou
Xavier Carcopino-Tusoli
Bruno Crépon
Catherine Deneux-Tharaux
Philippe Deruelle
Muriel Doret-Dion
Esther Duflo
Astrid Eckman-Lacroix
Frédérique Falchier
Isabelle Fournel
Aurélie Godard-Marceau
Ghada Hatem-Gantzer
Laurent Laforet
Nicolas Meunier-Beillard
Mathieu Morin
Franck Perrotin
Tiphaine Raia-Barjat
Isabelle Le Ray
Thomas Schmitz
Elise Thellier
Women carrying food in Tanzania.

Incentivizing Safe Sex in Rural Tanzania

Ramadhani Abdul
Faraji Abilahi
Matthieu Alexandre
William Dow
Erick Gong
Zachary Isdahl
Boniphace Jullu
Suneeta Krishnan
Albert Majura
Carol A. Medlin
Edward Miguel
Jeanne Moncada
Sally Mtenga
Mathew Alexander Mwanyangala
Rose Nathan
Laura Packel
Julius Schachter
Kizito Shirima
Damien de Walque
In Tanzania, researchers examined whether making cash payments conditional on testing negative for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) can improve safe sex practices among young adults. They found that offering cash incentives of US$20 significantly reduced STI rates after one year, although...

Nudges and Improved Communication to Encourage Medicaid Take-Up in Oregon

Katherine Baicker
Ginny Garcia-Alexander
Margarette (Maggie) A. Weller
Bill Wright
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Virtual and Face-to-Face Peer Interactions to Improve the Quality of Business Proposals among Entrepreneurs in 49 Countries across Africa

Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil
Charles Brummitt
Tommaso Fornaciari
Dirk Hovy
Paolo Pin
Gaia Rubera
Diego Ubfal
Fernando Vega-Redondo
Researchers compared the effects of face-to-face and virtual peer interaction on the submission and quality of business proposals by individuals from 49 African countries enrolled in an online entrepreneurship course. They found that face-to-face networks and the virtual interaction of groups of...
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Evaluating the Impact of Moving to Opportunity in the United States

Emma Adam
Raj Chetty
Greg Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Nathaniel (Nathan) Hendren
Paul Hirschfield
Lawrence Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey Kling
Jeffrey Liebman
Stacy Tessler Lindau
Jens Ludwig
Thomas W. McDade
Joshua C. Pinkston
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Robert C. Whitaker
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The Impact of Family Planning Training on Private Sector Health Care Performance in Nigeria

Sikiru Baruwa
Minki Chatterji
Doug Johnson
Cynthia Kinnan
Modupe Toriola
Jorge Ugaz
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The Impact of Delayed Wage Payments on Spending and Investment in Malawi

Lasse Brune
Jason Kerwin
Qingxiao Li
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of paying workers on a weekly basis or in one lump sum, as well as of receiving payments in contexts with greater temptation to spend, on their spending and investment decisions. Workers assigned to receive lump-sum wages were more...
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The Impact of Decentralizing Education Spending on Student Learning in Senegal

Pedro Carneiro
Oswald Koussihouede
Nathalie Lahire
Costas Meghir
Corina Mommaerts
Researchers partnered with the Senegalese government to evaluate the impact of a decentralized school grants program on student learning. The program improved test scores overall and for girls in younger grades. The impact was stronger in schools that invested more in human resource training rather...