Sectors

Conseillé par des Chaires scientifiques, tous professeurs affiliés, nos secteurs guident les activités de recherche, de diffusion politique et de formation. Ils gèrent les initiatives qui financent des évaluations randomisées et organisent des événements, conférences, séminaires en ligne et ateliers de formation dans le monde entier.

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Allocations Familiales in France
Policy Publication

Réduire le non-recours aux prestations sociales par les demandeurs d’emploi en France

Job seekers who met with social workers to discuss their eligibility for social benefits increased their take-up of new benefits. By offering application assistance, social workers helped job seekers navigate complex application procedures.

A student looks at a screen, featuring essay feedback given by the Letrus platform.
Evidence to Policy

Artificial intelligence to strengthen high school students’ writing skills

The state government of Espírito Santo, Brazil applied research findings to scale an AI education technology that gives public school students feedback on their writing, reaching more than 100,000 high school seniors to date.

Farmer selling produce at market
Policy Insight

Increasing small-scale farmers’ access to agricultural markets

Farmers in low- and middle-income countries face challenges accessing markets and earning profits on their agricultural goods. When small-scale farmers have better access to both markets where they buy inputs for their own farming and markets where they sell their goods, they can often invest more...

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Evaluation

The Impact of Encouraging Mobile Money Use on Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania

 Supporting women’s empowerment, the ability for women to control their resources and make their own choices, is a common policy goal both as its own outcome and as a vehicle to drive other change like improving children’s health and education. Many empowerment programs have targeted women’s income...

A health worker in the province of Oubritenga, Burkina Faso educates women on contraception options.
Evidence to Policy

Lowering barriers to contraception use through mass media

An evidence-based family planning campaign delivered via mass media was scaled up across Burkina Faso, reaching 80 percent of the country’s population, and adapted in seven countries in southern and eastern Africa.

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Evaluation

Managerial Practices for Improved Productivity of Skilled Workers in the UK

Researchers worked with an airline to test the impact of different types of information and incentives on pilots’ productivity, as measured by pilots’ implementation of fuel-saving practices. Provision of personalized targets for achieving these fuel-saving practices led pilots to implement them...

A smiling woman pulls a cord, turning on a lightbulb.
Policy Insight

Développer l'accès à l'électricité des ménages

L'accès à l'électricité est un facteur essentiel pour améliorer le bien-être et relever le niveau de vie des individus, mais les données probantes existantes suggèrent qu'il ne s'agit que de l'un des facteurs nécessaires à la réduction de la pauvreté et que cette solution ne suffit pas à elle seule.

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Policy Insight

Improving job seekers’ employment and earnings through credible skills signals

Credible skills signals help alleviate information barriers for both job seekers and firms, and often improve employment and earnings at a low cost. More and better information enables applicants to have a more effective job search, often resulting in higher-quality jobs and better employment...