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Identifying Effective Teachers in the United States

Thomas Kane
Daniel McCaffrey
Trey Miller
Douglas Staiger
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Providing Information and Application Assistance to Improve Social Pension Enrollment in India

Sarika Gupta
The researcher evaluated the impact of providing eligible women with program information and various levels of application assistance for the Delhi Widow Pension Scheme on program knowledge, application completion, and enrollment. Offering more involved application assistance increased average...
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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market

Amira Abulafi
David Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz
Noam Yuchtman
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Preserving Peace in Rural Liberia through Alternative Dispute Resolution Trainings

Robert Blair
Chris Blattman
Alexandra Hartman
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Impact of Teaching Firms about Labor Laws on Hiring in South Africa

Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Researchers investigated whether access to information about local labor laws could improve firms’ understanding of the law. They found that free access to an existing subscription service that provided this information improved firms’ understanding of labor regulations and resulted in large...

Social Networks and the Decision to Insure in China

Jing Cai
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
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Intergenerational Conflict and Schooling Decisions in Brazil

Leonardo Bursztyn
Lucas Coffman
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Impacts of Nonpartisan Political Information on Electoral Accountability in Mexico

Jose Ramon Enriquez
Horacio Larreguy
John Marshall
Alberto Simpser
Leveraging the increasingly widespread use of social media, researchers conducted a large-scale randomized evaluation to test the direct and indirect impact on electoral accountability of a nonpartisan information campaign delivered via Facebook ads during the 2018 Mexican municipal elections...