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Poverty Alleviation and Interhousehold Transfers: Evidence from BRAC’s Graduation Program in Bangladesh
Poor households often rely on transfers from their social networks for consumption smoothing, yet there is limited evidence on how antipoverty programs affect informal transfers. This paper exploits the randomized rollout of BRAC’s ultra-poor graduation program in Bangladesh and panel data covering...
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Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
We study the effects of a policy that distributed large cash grants through school councils to public schools in rural Pakistan. Using a village-level randomized control trial, we identify the medium-term equilibrium effects of this policy in a marketplace where the private sector is large, and...
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The power of personalised information: Evidence from an health behaviour experiment
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Save(d) by Design
We begin by presenting novel administrative evidence from 840 401(k) plans with automatic enrollment (AE) indicating that the risk of retirement insecurity extends to a significant share of actual enrollees. Hypothesizing that this risk is materially affected by the initial decision to enroll at the...
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Serenity Now, Save Later? Evidence on Retirement Savings Puzzles from a 401(k) Field Experiment
Economists have advanced several psychological frictions to explain why many 401(k)-eligible employees undersave for retirement despite generous matching incentives. We provide evidence on four of these frictions through a field experiment randomizing undersaving employees to information- and...
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Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in international labor markets, where intermediaries match prospective migrants with employers abroad. We ran a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about...
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Does Short-Term School Tutoring have Medium-Term Effects? Experimental Evidence from Chile
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Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem
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Shared Decision-Making: Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives?
Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of interventions addressing two barriers to long-acting reversible contraceptive adoption, credit, and informational constraints...
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Improving Tolerance through Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq
Promoting positive and cooperative contact helped Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS build tolerance toward Muslim peers after conflict, but these effects did not generalize to the broader Muslim community.
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Can Media Campaigns Campaigns Empower Women Facing Gender-Based Violence amid COVID-19
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Playing Whac-A-Mole in the Fight against Corruption: Evidence from Random Audits in Brazil
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When bootstraps aren’t enough: Demand, supply, and learning in a very low-income context
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Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years
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Empowering Women through Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers
Targeting payments of a nationwide conditional cash transfer program to women increased household spending on food by empowering women and enhancing their decision-making power in the household.