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Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Voting in Honduras

Elizabeth Linos
In this randomized evaluation in Honduras, researchers assessed how the national Programa de Asignación Familiar (Family Allowance Program) CCT program, which provided a combination of transfers to households and transfers to support public goods, influenced voting in local and national elections...
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Providing Endowments to Improve Bargaining Outcomes for Microentrepreneurs in Ghana

Morgan Hardy
Gisella Kagy
Lena Song
Researchers randomly provided more or less cash to garment-making firm owners in Ghana before a bargaining game to evaluate the impact of endowment on the negotiated sale price of a good. Owners of garment-making microenterprises with lower household liquidity agreed to lower sale prices during the...
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Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Maternal Depression in Pakistan

Victoria Baranov
Sonia Bhalotra
Pietro Biroli
Joanna Maselko
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), approximately twenty percent of women who bear children experience depression during pregnancy or in the year after their child’s birthday, called perinatal depression, but they are rarely diagnosed or treated. Researchers evaluated the impact of a...

Professional Advising, Job Search Support and Apprenticeships for University Drop-Outs in France (AFIJ)

In 2009, researchers tested the relative effectiveness of different employment services targeted at university dropouts. Overall, intensive counseling increased the number of job interviews youth received and improved their perceptions of their career prospects and their trust in the private sector.
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Can Transportation Subsidies Reduce Failures to Appear in Criminal Court?

Rebecca Brough
Matthew Freedman
Daniel E. Ho
David Phillips
Researchers partnered with local agencies in King County, Washington to evaluate the impact of providing transit subsidies on rates of FTA in court. While the study was disrupted due to Covid-19, the pilot results indicated that transit subsidies had little effect on reducing FTA.
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Does Continuous Professional Development Improve Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia?

Andreas de Barros
Researchers are evaluating the impact of the “Teaching at the Right Level” program on students’ foundational literacy and mathematics skills.
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Worker Evaluations of Managers and Productivity in China

Jing Cai
Shing-Yi Wang
Researchers randomly assigned automobile manufacturing workers to provide monthly feedback on their managers to measure the impact of feedback on worker productivity, turnover, and job satisfaction in China. Team-level productivity was higher, turnover was lower, and workers’ happiness increased...
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Isolating the effects of personalization in a targeted instruction program in India

Andreas de Barros
Alejandro Ganimian
Are the effects of targeted instruction programs—such as Teaching at the Right Level or Computer Adaptive Learning (CAL) software—indeed driven by personalization? In partnership with an education assessment firm, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to isolate the impact of computer-based...