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Evaluating the Karnataka Integrated Medical Information and Disease Surveillance System (IMIDSS) in Primary Health Centers in India

Iqbal Dhaliwal
Rema Hanna
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Financial and Informational Barriers to Migration in the Philippines

Emily Beam
David McKenzie
Dean Yang

Information and Referrals at the End of Middle School, France

Dominique Goux
Marc Gurgand
Eric Maurin
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Returns to Consulting in the Philippines

Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
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Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from a randomized Medicare payment reform

Researchers evaluated the impact of the mandatory-participation bundled payment model for hospitals and explored which hospitals were incentivized to opt in to bundled payments after the model was later made voluntary. The mandatory-participation bundled payment program produced modest reductions in...
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Providing Entrepreneurship Training and Cash Business Grants to Venezuelan Migrants in Peru

Dean Karlan
Diego Santa Maria
Natalia Rigol
Benjamin Roth
Martin Valdivia
In Peru, researchers are delivering cash grants and business training to Venezuelan migrant entrepreneurs and assessing the impacts on the short- and long-term success of enterprises as well as migrants’ food security, health, and income.
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Safe Spaces with Vocational and Life Skills Training for Young Women's Economic and Social Empowerment in Uganda

Oriana Bandiera
Niklas Buehren
Robin Burgess
Markus Goldstein
Selim Gulesci
Imran Rasul
Munshi Sulaiman
In Uganda, researchers examined the impact of a combination of life skills and vocational training on adolescent girls’ engagement in income-generating activities, control over their bodies, and aspirations. The bundled provision of hard vocational and soft life skills training led to substantial...

Promoting Handwashing Behavior in Peru: The Effects of Large-Scale Community and School-Level Interventions

Nicolas Ajzenman
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Alexandra Orsola-Vidal
Researchers evaluated the impact of a large-scale handwashing intervention in Peru that introduced an innovative mix of mass media campaigns along with more intensive community activities, including educational sessions for caregivers and a handwashing curriculum in some schools. The program was...