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Using a Technology-Based Solution to Reduce Public Health Worker Absenteeism in Pakistan

Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Ali Hasanain
Yasir Khan

Improving Community Workers' and Beneficiaries' Well-being through a National Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Dominican Republic

The Impact of Deliberative Political Campaigns on Voter Behavior in the Philippines

Thomas Fujiwara
Cecilia Pe Lero
Gabriel López-Moctezuma
Daniel Rubenson
Leonard Wantchekon

Summer Jobs Improve Employment Outcomes for Connected Youth

Jonathan Davis
Sara Heller
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Changing Teenage Girls' Aspirations and Educational Attainment through Increased Female Representation in Leadership in India

Lori Beaman
Esther Duflo
Rohini Pande
Petia B. Topalova
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Does Campaign Spending Work in the United States?

Alan Gerber
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Using Technology to Promote Electoral Participation in South Africa

Karen Ferree
Clark Gibson
Danielle Jung
James Long
Craig McIntosh

Designing Contracts for Healthcare Providers in India

Katherine Donato
Grant Miller
Manoj Mohanan
Yulya Truskinovsky
Marcos Vera-Hernandez
Researchers evaluated two types of reward contracts—one that rewarded providers for increased use of inputs and one that rewarded providers for improved health outputs—among rural obstetric care providers in India. They found that both contracts reduced post-partum hemorrhage by 20-23 percent.