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Cash and Compliance with Social Distancing in Ghana
The researchers aim to understand the role that digital cash transfers can play as a policy tool both to increase household resilience during the pandemic and to stem the spread of the disease by increasing adherence to social distancing in Ghana.
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Conference: Field Experiments in Labor Economics and Social Policies
Field experiments in economics are an active field of research both in developing and developed countries. The conference discussed recent developments in this approach, in particular related to long-term outcomes, identifying mechanisms, and external validity.
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Impact Boot Camp
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Promoting Adoption of New Rice Varieties: Addressing the Costs of Early Adoption in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, researchers are testing whether price subsidies and agricultural extension training can reduce the costs of early adoption, and whether using the improved seed varieties will ultimately benefit poor farmers.
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Evaluating Village Savings and Loans Associations in Malawi
In Malawi, researchers are evaluating the effect of membership in a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) on an individual’s financial and social well-being.
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Online Sexual Education Modules for Schools in Urban Colombia
In Colombia, researchers evaluated the impact of an online sexual health course implemented in public middle schools on adolescents’ sexual health knowledge, behavior, and attitudes towards sexual health. The study showed that the online course led to improved sexual health knowledge and attitudes, and increased the likelihood that students redeemed vouchers for condoms, an important precautionary behavior.
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Using Radio and Video as a Means for Financial Education in Peru
In Peru, researchers attempted to evaluate the impact of a technology-based financial literacy program on microcredit clients’ financial behavior. Low implementation levels led to a discontinuation of the evaluation.
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Introducing Financial Services to Native Amazonians in Bolivia
Centering on one native Amazonian society (Tsimane’) and partnering with a Bolivian non- profit, researchers evaluated the impact of providing Tsimane’ households with lockboxes on their savings activity, consumption, and well-being. Providing lockboxes increased household financial assets but had no impact on total household expenditure; receiving lockboxes also increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure.
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Teaching Savings Practices to Ugandan Youth
In Uganda, researchers evaluated whether offering financial education or group savings accounts to church-based youth groups increased savings. One year after the intervention ended, they found that total savings and income had increased among youth who were offered financial education, group savings accounts, or both education and group accounts.
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Using Alarm Boxes to Combine Commitment and Reminders for Savings in Bolivia
In Bolivia, researchers investigated whether alarm boxes, designed to both remind people to save and to keep their savings safe, could have an effect on savings rates among microfinance clients.
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Recycling Program Take-up and Participation in Northern Peru
Researchers examined the effect of a series of informational messages on participation in a recycling program in Peru. The messages sought to elicit pressures such as social norms, peer comparison, conformity, authority, and the environmental or social benefits to increased participation. They found that none of the messages had any effect on recycling. A parallel intervention, the provision of free plastic recycling bins, proved to be much more effective.