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Combining Microcredit with Health Education in Benin

Bobbi Gray
Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of a bundled microcredit and health education program, delivered both to mixed-gender and female-only loan groups in Benin, to evaluate its impacts on health knowledge, health behaviors, and social outcomes. The integrated package of group microcredit...
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The Effect of Information on Employee Evaluation in the United States

Thomas Kane
Jonah Rockoff
Douglas Staiger
Eric Taylor
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Access to Credit and the Scale-Up of Biometric Technology in Malawi

Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang

Increasing Access to Microcredit to Encourage Business Start-up and Participant Welfare in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Britta Augsburg
Ralph De Haas
Heike Harmgart
Costas Meghir
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The Use of Nonbinding Contribution Suggestions for a Charitable Fundraising Scheme in Germany

Maja Adena
Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul

The Impact of Farmer-to-Farmer Training on Agricultural Productivity in Uganda

Luc Behaghel
Jeremie Gignoux
Rick Kamugisha
Jane Kugonza
Karen Macours
Margaret Najjingo Mangheni
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The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Argentina

Florencia Lopez Boo
Martin Rossi
Sergio Urzua
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Motivating Bureaucrats through Performance Recognition in Nigeria

Varun Gauri
Nina Mazar
Owen Ozier
Karima Salem
Researchers introduced a performance recognition system for employees to improve record keeping in clinics in Ekiti and Niger, Nigeria. They found that the performance recognition improved record keeping in Ekiti but not in Niger. Researchers suggested that important institutional, managerial and...