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Improving Labor Market Opportunities to Increase Women's Employment and Education in India

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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

Improving Financial Inclusion and Welfare Outcomes among Women through Savings Groups in Ghana

Researchers partnered with Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) to evaluate the impact of VSLAs on rural households. The promotion of these groups led to an improvement in financial inclusion for participants—including, substantial increases in savings and receiving a loan...
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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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Performance Incentives for Commercial Bank Loan Officers to Improve Effort on Risk-Assessment and Lending Decisions in India

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Secured Transaction Reform to Increase Access to Capital for Small and Medium Enterprises in Colombia