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Does lasting behavior change require knowledge change? Evidence from savings interventions for young adults
Is financial knowledge change necessary for lasting behavior change? Or, akin to Friedman’s billiard player, can behavior persist “as if” such knowledge is held? We randomize 240 Ugandan young-adult clubs to financial education, savings account access, both, or neither. Each education arm, but not...
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How Do Summer Youth Employment Programs Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes, and for Whom?
Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) are believed to have the potential to improve the behavioral, economic, and academic outcomes of the populations they serve, particularly for innercity, low-income, and non-white youth. As part of an embedded randomized controlled trial, during the summer of...
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Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
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Using Data for Development: Evidence from a Phone System for Agricultural Advice
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can training improve organizational culture? experimental evidence from ghana’s civil service
Organizational culture is an important driver of organizational performance, but evidence on how to improve performance-oriented organizational cultures is scarce – especially in the public sector. We partnered with Ghana’s Civil Service to design a new innovation training module geared towards such...
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Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
In public good provision and other collective action problems, people are uncertain about how to balance self-interest and prosociality. Actions of others may inform this decision. We conduct an experiment to test the effect of watching private citizens and public officials acting in ways that...
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Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn
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Mechanizing Agriculture Impacts on Labor and Productivity
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EXTERNAL VALIDITY: FOUR MODELS OF IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: A Randomized Experiment in Kenya
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Scores, Camera, Action? Incentivizing Teachers in Remote Areas
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When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
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Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Credit Contracts
A widely held view is that small firms in developing countries are prevented from making profitable investments by lack of access to credit and insurance markets. One solution is to provide repayment flexibility in credit contracts. Repayment flexibility eases both the credit constraint, as it...
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A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
This study presents results from a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 years in three of Nairobi’s poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital...
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