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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance in China

Jing Cai
Adam Szeidl

Can facilitating relationships between small- and medium-sized businesses help them grow? In Jiangxi Province, China, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the impact of business relationships on firm performance. Monthly meetings among firms increased sales, profits, and other...

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The Use of Self-Help Groups as a Savings Commitment Device in Chile

Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz

Financial Literacy, Access to Finance, and the Effect of Being Banked in Indonesia

Shawn Cole
Thomas Sampson
Bilal Zia
Researchers worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia and the Microfinance Innovation Center for Resources and Alternatives to measure the impact of incentives and financial education on savings account take-up. Results indicated that the financial education program was not an effective tool for promoting...
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Discrimination in Grading in India

Rema Hanna
Leigh Linden
Researchers used a randomized evaluation to test for discrimination in grading in India. They found that teachers gave exams that were assigned to be lower caste worse scores than those that were assigned to be high caste.

Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of sending text message reminders to clients holding programmed savings accounts.
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Time Inconsistency and Saving among Low-Income Tax Filers in the United States

Damon Jones
Aprajit Mahajan
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Bolstering Coverage of Improved Sanitation in Bangladesh

Raymond Guiteras
James Levinsohn
Mushfiq Mobarak
Health care workers in Sierra Leone put on personal protective equipment during the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak.

Building Resilient Health Systems: Community Monitoring and Nonfinancial Awards During Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Darin Christensen
Oeindrila Dube
Johannes Haushofer
Bilal Siddiqi
Maarten Voors
Researchers partnered with the Government of Sierra Leone to evaluate the impact of community monitoring and nonfinancial awards programs on health care utilization and health outcomes. Both programs improved clinic utilization, patient satisfaction, and symptom reporting during the 2014 Ebola...