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Financial Training for Mineworkers in South Africa

Shawn Cole
Jeremy Shapiro
Kartini Shastry
To test this, researchers evaluated the impact of a financial literacy workshop on miners’ financial understanding, behavior, and use of financial services.

Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets in Malawi

Raymond Guiteras
Kelsey Jack
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Mobilizing Group Membership: The Impact of Personalization and Social Pressure Emails in the United States

James N. Druckman
Donald Green

Voting and Habit Formation in the United States

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
Ron Shachar
During the 1998 state and federal elections and the 1999 city elections in New Haven, Connecticut, researchers found that face-to-face canvassing and direct mail appeals significantly increased voter turnout not only during the election year but also in the election a year after.
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The Impact of Packaging and Messaging on Adherence to Malaria Treatment in Uganda

Jessica Cohen
Indrani Saran
Researchers evaluated the effects of different medication packaging and messaging on individuals’ adherence to malaria treatment in Uganda. They found that colorful, “high quality” packaging had no effect, while adding low-cost stickers with simple informative messaging to existing packaging...
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Moving Beyond Conditional Cash Transfers in the Dominican Republic

Greg Fischer
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
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Do Better Schools Lead to Better Academic Outcomes for Children Facing Barriers to Learning in the United States?

Julie Berry Cullen
Brian Jacob

The Impact of UNICEF's Communication for Development (C4D) Program in Ghana

Gunther Fink
Dean Karlan
Robert Osei
Christopher Udry