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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability in Bangladesh?

Raymond Guiteras
Mushfiq Mobarak
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Reminder Messaging and Peer Support for Debt Reduction in the United States

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

The Role of the VAT for Tax Enforcement

Dina Pomeranz

The Value Added Tax (VAT) system, which generates a paper trail on transactions between firms, facilitated tax enforcement by spreading the impact of enforcement measures up the production chain in a study with over 400,000 firms in Chile.

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The Impact of Offering Free ATM Cards to Couples in Kenya

Simone Schaner
In partnership with Family Bank of Kenya, researchers evaluated the impact of providing free ATM card to couples on savings account use. Providing ATM cards significantly increased the use of savings accounts owned by men and joint accounts on average, but had no effect on accounts owned by women or...
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Using Microcredit and Family Planning Services to Increase Contraceptive Use in Ethiopia

Jaikishan Desai
Alessandro Tarozzi
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Prompting Microfinance Borrowers to Save in Guatemala

Jesse Atkinson
Alain de Janvry
Craig McIntosh
Elisabeth Sadoulet
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Dependence Duration and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from the United States

Kory Kroft
Fabian Lange
Matthew Notowidigdo

Socio-Emotional Learning for At-Risk Students in Urban Schools in Lima

Paul Gertler
Ines Kudo