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Improving Governance Through Biometric Authentication and Secure Payments in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
In India, a biometrically authenticated payment system reduced corruption and substantially improved the delivery of government social assistance programs despite partial implementation.
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Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Uganda

Chris Blattman
Nathan Fiala
Sebastian Martinez

Improving Community Workers' and Beneficiaries' Well-being through a National Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Dominican Republic

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Financial Trust Workshops to Encourage Savings Behaviors in Peru

Camila Navajas Ahumada
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in rural Peru to assess the impact of providing a workshop designed to foster trust in banks on participants’ levels of trust, financial literacy, and saving and account use patterns of cash transfer recipients. Overall, participants who were offered the...

Information and Social Interaction in Savings Decisions in the United States

Esther Duflo
This evaluation studied the influence of information and social networks on university employees' decisions to enroll in a voluntary Tax Deferred Account (TDA) retirement plan in the United States. The results indicated that an individual’s decision to participate in the TDA is affected by small...
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Leveraging Government Transfers to Offer Low-Risk Microcredit in the Dominican Republic

Frederico Finan
Seth Garz
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
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Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards in Mexico

Paul Gertler
Sebastian Martinez
Marta Rubio-Codina

The Impact of Simplifying Pension Statements in Colombia

Researchers in Colombia partnered with Colpensiones, Colombia’s public pension fund administrator, to test the effect of redesigning pension statements on the beneficiaries' understanding of the information presented and the identification of potential errors in their statements.