Funded by IPA’s Consumer Protection Research Initiative and in collaboration with IPA and the Superintendencia de Bancos (SB) de la República Dominicana, researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to measure whether behavioral “nudge” messages improve credit card users’ debt repayment.

In partnership with IPA, Grupo Jaragua, and Seacology, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to assess whether integrating mangrove conservation workshops for youth sports clubs could enhance ecological awareness and promote conservation behaviors. The workshops changed youth knowledge and attitudes about mangroves and also influenced their friends and parents to support mangrove conservation. However, the workshop had limited impacts on changing day-to-day environmental behaviors or interest in buying conservation-friendly products.

A simplified financial training based on “rules of thumb” improved business practices and outcomes among microentrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic, while standard, fundamentals-based accounting training produced no significant effect.