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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
Mathieu Perona
Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
Simone Schaner
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A Multifaceted Approach to Increase Women’s Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci
Rachel M. Heath
Eva Noble
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Improving Non-Communicable Disease Compliance in India

Daniel Bennett
Simone Schaner
In India, researchers will evaluate the impact of financial incentives, information, and reminders on treatment regimen compliance among patients of a healthcare provider in the slums of Mumbai.
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The Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Mitigating Income Shocks in Mexico

Frederico Finan
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Renos Vakis

Impact of a Public School Lottery in the United States

David Deming
Justine Hastings
Thomas Kane
Douglas Staiger
Jeremy Weinstein

Auditing Schools’ Responsiveness to Students with Disabilities in Districts of Choice

Peter Bergman
Isaac McFarlin
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The Effects of Misperceptions of Social Norms on Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Leonardo Bursztyn
Alessandra González
David Yanagizawa-Drott
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The impacts of recruiting committee gender composition on women’s employment outcomes in Spain

Manuel Bagues
Berta Esteve-Volart
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Testing the impact of antimalarial discounts on overtreatment in Mali

Carolina Lopez
Anja Sautmann
Simone Schaner
Researchers varied patients’ information about a discount on treatment for simple malaria and measuring take-up of treatment to identify the factors driving overtreatment. While patient pressure on doctors in response to the discount led to excess prescription of antimalarials, there was no evidence...

Communal Sanitation Solutions for Urban Slums in Orissa, India

Sharon Barnhardt
Judy Chevalier
Mushfiq Mobarak