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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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Evaluating the Saving for Change Program in Mali

Lori Beaman
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Morduch
Bram Thuysbaert
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Testing for Peer Screening and Enforcement in Microlending: Evidence from South Africa

Gharad Bryan
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
In South Africa, researchers evaluated whether people have enough information to identify reliable borrowers among their peers and if they can help enforce loan repayment. They found that when given incentives, peers were not effective at screening for creditworthiness, but they were effective at...
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Financial Education for Indian Migrant Workers in Qatar

Ganesh Seshan
Dean Yang
Researchers examined the impact of receiving an invitation to a savings-focused financial literacy workshop on the financial decisions of Indian migrant workers in Qatar and their wives in India. A one-time financial literacy workshop in Qatar increased migrant workers’ joint financial decision...
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Microfinance to Increase Social Capital and Female Empowerment in India

Benjamin Feigenberg
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Shayak Sarkar
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The Impact of Enhanced Business Training for High-Potential Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Antoinette Schoar
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The Use of Self-Help Groups as a Savings Commitment Device in Chile

Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz

Financial Literacy, Access to Finance, and the Effect of Being Banked in Indonesia

Shawn Cole
Thomas Sampson
Bilal Zia
Researchers worked with Bank Rakyat Indonesia and the Microfinance Innovation Center for Resources and Alternatives to measure the impact of incentives and financial education on savings account take-up. Results indicated that the financial education program was not an effective tool for promoting...

Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of sending text message reminders to clients holding programmed savings accounts.