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Encouraging Young South Africans to Register to Vote

Adam Berinsky
Daniel de Kadt
Kate Orkin
Daniel Posner

Soft versus Hard Skills in Entrepreneurial Success: Evidence from Youth Entrepreneurship Training in Uganda

Dana R. Carney
Paul Gertler
Candidates participating in a filmed debate for the 2012 parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone.

Debates: The Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives in Sierra Leone

Kelly Bidwell
Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
In Sierra Leone, researchers evaluated the effect of publicly-screened debates during the run-up to parliamentary elections. Debates impacted voters’ political knowledge and voting decisions, and also caused candidates to invest more in their constituencies, both during the campaign and one year...
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Changing Beliefs, Changing Bribes in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
John Firth
Daniel Keniston
Ben Olken
Smokestacks emit smoke into a hazy sky

Increasing the Transparency of Environmental Regulation in India

Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nick Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
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Recruiting and Motivating Community Health Workers in Zambia

Nava Ashraf
Oriana Bandiera
Scott Lee
The Government of Zambia partnered with researchers to test the effect of two different recruitment strategies for a newly created healthcare position, the Community Health Assistant (CHA). One strategy emphasized career opportunities and the other emphasized the contributions one could make in the...
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Measuring Competition Through Subsidies in Sierra Leone’s Cocoa Market

Lorenzo Casaburi
Tristan Reed
In order to measure the level of competition among traders in Sierra Leone’s cocoa market, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of delivering subsidies to cocoa traders on prices that traders paid to cocoa farmers. While the bonus payments did not affect the prices paid...
Hut next to a field of sugarcane in western Kenya.

Contract Farming, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Small Scale Farmers in Western Kenya

Lorenzo Casaburi
Michael Kremer
Sendhil Mullainathan
Ravindra Ramrattan
In Western Kenya, researchers evaluated an SMS intervention whereby a large-agribusiness sent farmers with whom they contracted timely reminders on agricultural tasks to be completed. The SMS intervention was a cost-effective means of increasing yields, farmer revenue, and company profits. However...