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Distributing Pollution Rights in Cap-and-Trade Programs in the United States

Meredith Fowlie
Jeffrey Perloff
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Radio Public Service Announcements and Voter Participation Among Native Americans in the United States

Donald Green
Eline A de Rooij

Can media campaigns increase voter turnout among those underrepresented in the electorate? Researchers randomly assigned areas covered by Native American radio programming to either receive or not receive targeted radio messaging encouraging listeners to vote in the 2008 and 2010 US elections. The...

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Incentivizing Savings through Default Deposits and SMS Reminders

Abhijit Banerjee
Claudia Martinez
Esteban Puentes
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin
Azam Chaudhry
Shamyla Chaudry
Amit Khandelwal
Eric Verhoogen
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Do Robotic Calls from Credible Sources Influence Voter Turnout or Vote Choice?

Alan Gerber
James G. Gimpel
Donald Green
Daron R. Shaw
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The Effect of Academic Achievement Awards on College Success in Canada

Joshua Angrist
Philip Oreopoulos
Tyler Williams
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The Impact of Demonstration Plots on Adoption of New Rice Varieties in Bangladesh

Manzoor H. Dar
Kyle Emerick
Alain de Janvry
Erin Kelley
Elisabeth Sadoulet
In Bangladesh, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether helping selected farmers set up demonstration plots could increase awareness in the community about a new rice variety by triggering information exchanges through new interactions. Demonstration plots comparing new versus...
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Term Length and the Effort of Politicians in Argentina

Ernesto Dal Bó
Martin A. Rossi
Researchers examined two occasions in which an Argentine Congressional chamber was subject to randomly assigned term lengths as a result of political or constitutional changes. Assignment to a longer term increased overall legislative effort.