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Tablet-Based Financial Education in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Matthew Bird
Lina Cardona-Sosa
Pablo Lavado
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Evaluating the Impact of Working from Home on Productivity and Work-Life Balance in China

Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying

The Effect of Mentoring on School Attendance and Academic Outcomes: A Randomized Evaluation of the Check & Connect Program

Sandra Christenson
Amy Claessens
Ashley Cureton
Mimi Engel
Jonathan Guryan
Ijun Lai
Jens Ludwig
Mary Clair Turner
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The Impact of Mask Distribution and Promotion on Mask Uptake and Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Jason Abaluck
Salim Benhachmi
Jade Benjamin-Chung
Neeti Zaman Bintee
Emily Crawford
Muhammad Maqsud Hossain
Ellen Bates Jefferys
Alamgir Kabir
Laura H Kwong
Stephen Luby
Mushfiq Mobarak
Shadman Rahman
Shabib Raihan
Hasan Mahmud Reza
Ashley Styczynski
Peter J. Winch
Researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and Bangladeshi policymakers to test various strategies to increase mask-wearing and assess the impact of community mask wearing on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. They found that a four-part intervention tripled mask usage and increased physical...
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Learning without Teachers? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of a Mobile Phone-Based Adult Education Program in Los Angeles

Jenny Aker
Danielle Keenan-Miller
Christopher Ksoll
Karla Perez-Mendoza
Susan Smalley
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The Impact of Workers’ Financial Stability on Their Workplace Productivity in India

Supreet Kaur
Sendhil Mullainathan
Suanna Oh
Frank Schilbach
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to gauge whether enhanced financial stability impacted worker productivity in India. They found that giving small-scale manufacturing workers financial relief in the form of early wage payments increased their productivity and attention to detail on the...
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The Impact of Mobile-Based Market Information on Informal Cross-Border Trading in Kenya and Uganda

Eleanor Wiseman
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether reducing information disparities by giving access to critical market information through a mobile phone platform would improve traders’ profits and decrease incidences of corruption and bribery. Access to the mobile phone platform...
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Information and College Access in Canada

Ryan Dunn
Philip Oreopoulos