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

Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz
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Time Inconsistency and Saving among Low-Income Tax Filers in the United States

Damon Jones
Aprajit Mahajan
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Building Resilient Health Systems: Community Monitoring and Nonfinancial Awards During Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Darin Christensen
Oeindrila Dube
Johannes Haushofer
Bilal Siddiqi
Maarten Voors
Researchers partnered with the Government of Sierra Leone to evaluate the impact of community monitoring and nonfinancial awards programs on health care utilization and health outcomes. Both programs improved clinic utilization, patient satisfaction, and symptom reporting during the 2014 Ebola...
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Divided Payment Schedules to Reduce Regretful Spending in Uganda

Jenny Aker
Jessica Goldberg
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Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients in the United States

Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez
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Improving Learning Outcomes through the Government School System in India

James Berry
Esther Duflo
Shobhini Mukerji
Marc Shotland
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Flexible Loan Contracts for Microentrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Marianna Battaglia
Selim Gulesci
Andreas Madestam
In Bangladesh, researchers partnered with BRAC to evaluate the impact of repayment flexibility in loan contracts for microentrepreneurs. Repayment flexibility benefited traditional microfinance borrowers primarily through the provision of insurance, enabling riskier investments at lower default...
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The Profitability of Fertilizer in Mali

Lori Beaman
Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert
Christopher Udry