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Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Three Field Experiments
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‘Press 1 for Roads’: Constituency Service with New Communication Technology
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How do Online Job Portals affect Employment and Job Search? Evidence from India
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Match-Making is Difficult: Experimental & Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform
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Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls
More than 98 million adolescent girls are not in school. Can girls influence their school- ing without changes in their family’s economic environment? In Rajasthan, India, we examine the impact of a school-based life skills program that seeks to address low aspirations, narrow societal roles for...
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Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence Against Girls during the Covid-19 Pandemic?
This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduced the reported prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offered training in soft skills and technical skills, sexual education, mentoring, and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of...
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Is Habit a Powerful Policy Instrument to Induce Prosocial Change?
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Artificial Intelligence, Teacher Tasks, and Individualized Pedagogy
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Public Servants Under Pressure: Experimental Evidence on Efforts to Improve Teaching in India
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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing: An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
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Improving Lives through Evidence: Adapting to a Changing World 2020-21
Last year brought new challenges and demanded innovative solutions. Read how our research, policy, and capacity building work evolved to adapt to lockdowns and meet new evidence needs in the online 2020-21 edition of “Improving Lives Through Evidence."
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Health Care Communities Can Count On
Community monitoring and nonfinancial award programs for health clinics in Sierra Leone improved clinic utilization, patient satisfaction, and reporting during the 2014 Ebola crisis. Community monitoring improved child health and reduced mortality among Ebola patients.
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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
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