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Microfinance to Increase Social Capital and Female Empowerment in India

Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Shayak Sarkar
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Microfinance Repayment Schedules in West Bengal, India

Erica Field
Rohini Pande
John Papp
Jeannie Park
Natalia Rigol
Researchers tested two features of these contracts, repayment frequency and the time of the first repayment, to determine if characteristics of the loan contract affect borrowers’ repayment behavior and the types of investments they make. They found that less frequent repayments did not increase...

Impact of a Public School Lottery in the United States

David Deming
Thomas Kane
Douglas Staiger
Jeremy Weinstein
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The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Argentina

Florencia Lopez Boo
Martin A. Rossi
Sergio Urzua
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Providing Information and Application Assistance to Improve Social Pension Enrollment in India

Sarika Gupta
The researcher evaluated the impact of providing eligible women with program information and various levels of application assistance for the Delhi Widow Pension Scheme on program knowledge, application completion, and enrollment. Offering more involved application assistance increased average...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market

Amira Abulafi
David Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz
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Measuring the Impact of Clientelism on Voter Behavior in Benin

Leonard Wantchekon
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Social Pressure and Charitable Giving in the United States

Stefano DellaVigna
John List
Gautam Rao