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Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
Researchers re-examined data from previous studies in Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka to better understand the impact of credit and cash grant variations on micro-enterprise profits. Their results suggest that the gender gap in micro-enterprise performance was not due to ability, but rather to women’s financial resources often being redirected to their husbands’ businesses.
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Increasing Employment and Earnings through a Skills Development Program for Youth in Côte d'Ivoire
Researchers partnered with the Côte d'Ivoire government to measure the short- and long-term impacts of a public works program, along with complementary trainings on basic entrepreneurship and job search skills. In the short term, the program led to a shift toward wage jobs (as opposed to self-employment), higher earnings and savings, and improved well-being. However, most of these effects dissipated in the long-run.
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Ramsha Alam
Ramsha Alam is a Senior Associate Video Producer for J-PAL South Asia at IFMR in India. She leads video strategy and production for Creating Learning Opportunities for Public Officials (CLOP) initiative in alliance with the Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India and the Bill and...
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Increasing Financial Inclusion among Religious Individuals in Jordan
Researchers partnered with Tamweelcom, a microcredit institution in Jordan, to estimate the demand for loans that comply with Islamic law (sharia-compliant loans).
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The Demand for Status Goods in Indonesia
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The Effect of Informative Letters on the Prescription and Receipt of Seroquel in the United States
This study evaluated the impact of strongly-worded peer comparison review letters sent to high prescribers of quetiapine by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on prescribing behavior and patient-level outcomes. Researchers found that the letters caused substantial and long-lasting reductions in quetiapine prescribing, with no evidence of negative effects on patients.
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The Impact of a Workplace Wellness Program in Illinois
Researchers evaluated the effects of a large-scale workplace wellness program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on employee health behaviors, self-reported health status, productivity, and total medical expenditures. The researchers found that financial incentives increased participation in the program, although only to a point.
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Ofer Malamud
Ofer Malamud is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Ofer’s research interests are concentrated in three substantive areas: educational investments over the life course, the role of...
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Clinical Decision Support for Radiology Imaging in the United States
Researchers studied the impact of a clinical decision support software system on high-cost imaging orders. They found that clinical decision support reduced the number of high-cost scans targeted by the software but did not change the total number of high-cost scans ordered.
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Pre-publication planning and proofing
This resource is intended for research teams who have drafted a paper with results from a randomized evaluation and are preparing to submit to a journal or publish a working paper. Randomized evaluations may have many stakeholders, and they may each have requirements for the way that results are...