Youth employment has important implications for future economic growth, development, and stability.

Conducting rigorous research on financial products can deliver key, actionable insights to financial institutions, but knowing how and when to work with academic researchers to develop a long-term research project can be complicated.In this webinar, researcher Jeremy Burke (University of Southern California), Jean Elias & Christel McDuffie (Consumer Education Services Inc.), and Kate Glynn-Broderick (Innovations for Poverty Action) shared their experience partnering on a randomized evaluation of adding encouragement messaging and debt reframing to a Debt Management Plan.

This workshop was organized by the Society for International Development Washington Chapter.Advancing women’s digital connectivity is key to promoting their empowerment in an increasingly digital world, but a digital divide is reinforcing, and even exacerbating, existing socioeconomic gaps between men and women.In this 3-person panel, IPA's Financial Inclusion Program Director, Rebecca Rouse reviewed preliminary results from an IPA study in the Dominican Republic looking at how women-specific credit scoring can be used to improve lending outcomes for low-income women borrowers.