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The Long-term Impacts of a “Graduation” Program: Evidence from West Bengal
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Stepping Up to Combat Urban Diabetes
Providing financial incentives to walk at least 10,000 steps per day led to increased exercise and moderate physical and mental health improvements among diabetics and prediabetics in India, with "threshold" contracts being especially effective for diabetics who are more impatient.
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Doctors’ and Nurses’ Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 infections: A cluster randomized controlled trial in 13 States
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Scared Straight or Scared to Death? Fatalism in Response to Disease Risks
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Evaluating Sama’s Training and Job Programs in Nairobi, Kenya
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Pave the Way
Paving streets in marginalized neighborhoods in Mexico increased property values, allowing households to purchase more home appliances and vehicles and to invest more in home improvements.Paving streets in marginalized neighborhoods in Mexico increased property values, allowing households to...
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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31
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Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment
Constraints to growth for medium-sized enterprises in low-income countries remain a puzzle and a challenge, for academics and policymakers respectively. We collaborated with a lender in Egypt to examine whether some borrowers already in their portfolio could make profitable use of radically larger...
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Do Capital Grants Improve Microenterprise Productivity?
Do capital grants improve microenterprise productivity? We use the lens of a production function to re-examine two previous randomized controlled trials that allocated capital to microenterprises. We find that productivity is higher for treated firms, and accounts for about 20-30 percent of the...
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Social Incentives, Delivery Agents and the Effectiveness of Development Interventions
There has been a dramatic rise in the use of the local delivery model for development interventions, where local agents are hired as intermediaries to target interventions to potential beneficiaries. We study this model in the context of a standard agricultural extension intervention in Uganda, in a...
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Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers: Part I
In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject...
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Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling. Participants first roll one die until...
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Changing Gambling Behavior through Experiential Learning
This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool to reduce gambling in South Africa, through a randomized field experiment. The study implements a simple, interactive game that simulates the odds of winning the national lottery through dice rolling. Participants first roll one die until...
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