Evaluations

Search our database of 1,200+ summaries of randomized evaluations conducted by our affiliates in 100 countries. To browse key policy recommendations from a subset of these evaluations, visit the Policy Publications tab above.

Information Provision via Mobile Phones to Increase Mobile Banking in Ghana

Emma Riley

Abu Shonchoy

Children washing their hands in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Changing Handwashing Behavior with Edutainment in Bangladesh

Reshmaan Hussam

Kailash Pandey

Abu Shonchoy

Chikako Yamauchi

Three women sitting and relaxing on stone ledge by water, looking at phones

The Impact of Exposure to Discordant Media on Political Polarization in Turkey

Ahmet Akbiyik

Jeremy Bowles

Horacio Larreguy

Shelley Liu

Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier

Elise Huillery

Mathieu Perona

Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort

Diana Moreira

Gautam Rao

Juan Francisco Santini

Large group of women wearing headscarves seated on wooden mat.

Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi

Lisa Cameron

Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra

Simone Schaner

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Municipalities are selected for audit via public lottery

The Impact of Exposing Corrupt Politicians through Government Audits in Brazil

Eric Avis

Claudio Ferraz

Frederico Finan

Billions of dollars in government funds go missing each year due to corruption, but there is limited consensus on how best to tackle this global challenge. Researchers leveraged data from Brazil’s long-standing anticorruption program, which holds public lotteries to randomly select municipalities...

Political Economy and Governance

Dirt road in rural area with piles of rocks along edges

Combating Corruption in Community Development in Indonesia

Ben Olken

J-PAL affiliate Benjamin Olken (MIT) devised a method to measure corruption and used it to evaluate alternative strategies to reduce corruption on Indonesian roadbuilding projects. The evaluation tested two types of strategies: encouraging community participation and increasing the probability of...

Political Economy and Governance

Reducing Corruption Among Local Politicians in Benin

Political Economy and Governance

Exposure to Violence and Citizens' Willingness to Tolerate Government Corruption in Mexico

A dirt road in the D.R. Congo with a wooden barrier.

Citizen Demand for Corruption: Evidence from Roadway Tolls in the D.R. Congo

Otis Reid

Jonathan Weigel

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of incentives for motorcycle taxi drivers to pay the legal road tolls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Results suggest that financial incentives reduced bribery by seven to ten percentage points.

Political Economy and Governance

Politicians, Publicly-Released Audits of Corruption, and Electoral Outcomes in Brazil

Claudio Ferraz

Frederico Finan

Taking advantage of a federal anticorruption program that randomly assigned municipalities to be audited, the researchers compared the electoral outcomes for mayors in two randomly selected groups of municipalities: those that were audited before and those that were audited after the 2004 election...

Political Economy and Governance

Local Villagers digging and cleaning canal under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, government providing job for rural living people

Enhancing Local Public Service Delivery through Financial Reform of India's Employment Guarantee

Social programs in developing countries are often plagued by corruption, especially within the flow of funds from the central government to beneficiaries. For the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in India, the central government disburses funds to local governments...