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Access to Doctors and Health Outcomes in Nigeria

The researcher conducted a randomized evaluation to better understand how having a doctor on staff in a clinic affected the quality of health care and health outcomes in Nigeria. He found that doctors provided higher quality care than preexisting providers, and this higher quality translated to...

Improving Job Matching Among Youth in Iraq

So Yoon Ahn
Researchers evaluated the whether providing objective information helps jobseekers target better-suited jobs.

Do Workers Value Non-traditional Work Arrangements in the United States?

Employees may value alternative work arrangements like flexible scheduling and working from home and dislike schedules that vary from week to week on short notice. However, there is little evidence on how much these alternative work arrangements actually matter to employees. Researchers gave US job...

The Impact of Encouragement and Assistance on Benefits Take-Up in the United States

Most eligible workers who receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a cash transfer program geared toward low-income workers with dependents, receive the credit as an annual lump sum payment, even though they are eligible to receive the credit in the form of monthly disbursements throughout the...