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The Effect of Social Pressure on Individuals’ Financial Decisions in Central Malawi

Jessica Goldberg
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Impact of Information on the Returns to Education on the Demand for Schooling in the Dominican Republic

Providing Free Bank Accounts in Chile, Malawi, and Uganda

Pascaline Dupas
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Robinson
Diego Ubfal
Researchers partnered with banks in three countries to see if removing the costs to opening basic bank accounts would lead to more households opening and using bank accounts. Overall, use of the accounts was low across all three countries, and being offered a free, basic bank account had no impact...
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School's Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes (in Boston)

Researchers evaluated the impact of Boston’s Summer Youth Employment Program, which uses a lottery to provide youth with part-time work and skills training during the summer, on students’ educational outcomes. The program significantly increased high school graduation rates among participating...
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Assessing the Impact of Microcredit in Ethiopia

Jaikishan Desai
Kristin Johnson
Alessandro Tarozzi
Villagers gather around a survey team in Lempira, Honduras.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Honduras

Sebastian Galiani
Patrick McEwan
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Charitable Giving by Corporations and Aristocrats in Germany

Vittorio Bassi
Steffen Huck
Imran Rasul
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The Impact of a Women-Specific Credit Scoring Model on Women’s Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic

Laura Chioda
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
Researchers are partnering with a bank and a mobile money operator in the Dominican Republic to evaluate the impact of credit scoring models designed specifically for women on access to credit.