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The Impact of Productive Assets and Training on Child Labor in the Philippines

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Researchers Eric Edmonds Caroline Theoharides

Country Philippines

Program Area Social Protection

Topics Livelihoods Microenterprise Nutrition Training & Mentoring Ultra Poor

Kenyan Government Bonds as a Savings Tool

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Researchers Tavneet Suri Dean Karlan Charity Wayua

Country Kenya

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Financial Capability Product Design Savings

Teaching Staff Imbalances across Public Primary Schools in Zambia

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Researchers Torsten Figueiredo Walter

Country Zambia

Program Area Education

Topics Civil Service Motivation & Productivity Education Quality

The Impact of Personalized Text Messages on Participation in a Community Monitoring Program in Uganda

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Researchers Guy Grossman Kristin Michelitch Marta Santamaria

Country Uganda

Program Area Education Governance Health & Nutrition

Topics Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Transparency & Accountability

Social Incentives for Prenatal Care and Skilled Delivery in Sierra Leone

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Researchers Anne Karing

Country Sierra Leone

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Access to Healthcare Behavioral Design Incentives Maternal & Child Health

Fast Cash: The Impact of Up-Front Incentives on Young Women’s Savings in Tanzania

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Researchers Peter Carroll Flora Myamba Daniel Nielson Joseph Price Phillip Roessler Wayne Sandholtz

Country Tanzania

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Behavioral Design Commitments Financial Capability Incentives Product Design Savings

Leveraging Government Transfers to Offer Low-Risk Microcredit in the Dominican Republic

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Researchers Frederico Finan Seth Garz Sean Higgins

Country Dominican Republic

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance Cash Transfers Digital Finance Microcredit Microenterprise Payments

WASH Benefits: The Effects of Water Quality, Sanitation, Handwashing, and Nutrition Interventions on Child Health, Growth, and Development in Rural Kenya

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Researchers Clair Null Amy Pickering Christine Stewart Audrie Lin Sammy Njenga Jack Colford Ben Arnold Kathryn Dewey Lia Fernald Patricia Kariger

Country Kenya

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Early Childhood Development Maternal & Child Health Nutrition WASH

Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

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Researchers Rebecca Dizon-Ross Pascaline Dupas Jonathan Robinson

Country Ghana Kenya Uganda

Program Area Governance Health & Nutrition

Topics Access to Healthcare Civil Service Motivation & Productivity Product Pricing Transparency & Accountability

Promoting High Impact Entrepreneurship in Mexico: An Impact Evaluation

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Researchers David Atkin Leonardo Iacovone Eric Verhoogen

Country Mexico

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance

Financial Education through Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Rwanda

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Researchers Bilal Zia Douglas Randall

Country Rwanda

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Financial Capability Training & Mentoring

The Impact of Community Natural Resource Management on Farmers’ Livelihoods and Land Quality in Namibia

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Researchers Dean Karlan Julian Jamison Luke Crowley Dylan Groves D. Layne Coppock

Country Namibia

Program Area Agriculture Governance

Topics Community Participation Livelihoods

The Impact of Contract Farming on High Yielding Seed Adoption in Ghana

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Researchers Dean Karlan Christopher Udry

Country Ghana

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Technology Adoption

Tailored Microcredit in Rural Morocco

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Researchers William Parienté Bruno Crépon Florencia Devoto Ralph De Haas

Country Morocco

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance Microcredit Payments Product Design Rural Finance

Saving During Pregnancy in Zambia

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Researchers Peter Rockers Calvin Chiu Peter Hangoma

Country Zambia

Program Area Financial Inclusion Health & Nutrition

Topics Maternal & Child Health Savings Women & Girls

The Impact of Parental Education on Child Health and Cognitive Development in Ghana

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Researchers Esther Duflo Pascaline Dupas Elizabeth Spelke Mark Walsh

Country Ghana

Program Area Education Health & Nutrition

Topics Early Childhood Development Maternal & Child Health Nutrition Post-Primary Education Youth

Competition and Collusion Among Maize Traders in Rural Kenya

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Researchers Lauren Falcao Bergquist

Country Kenya

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Access to Finance Access to Markets Technology Adoption

Communication for Development in Ghana

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Researchers Günther Fink Dean Karlan Robert Osei Christopher Udry

Country Ghana

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Maternal & Child Health Mobile Health

Evaluation of the Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Program in Rwanda

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Researchers Sophie Boisson Thomas Clasen Jeanine Condo Karen Grépin James Habyarimana William Jack Wolf-Peter Schmidt Sheela Sinharoy

Country Rwanda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Access to Healthcare Maternal & Child Health WASH

Testing Agricultural Technologies for Maize Production in Ghana

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Researchers Christopher Udry Dean Karlan Shashidhara Kolavalli Federica Di Battista Joanna van Asselt

Country Ghana

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Livelihoods Technology Adoption

Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition

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Researchers David McKenzie

Country Nigeria

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance

Improving Local Tax Collection and Compliance in Malawi

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Researchers Lucy Martin Brigitte Zimmerman

Country Malawi

Program Area Governance

Topics Civil Service Motivation & Productivity Community Participation Transparency & Accountability

Effect of Matching Ratios on Charitable Giving in the United States

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Researchers Dean Karlan John List

Country United States

Topics Charitable Giving Community Participation

HIV Prevention Among Youths: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

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Researchers Esther Duflo Pascaline Dupas Vandana Sharma

Country Kenya

Program Area Education Health & Nutrition

Topics Cash Transfers HIV/AIDS Youth

The Impact of Training for Market-Oriented Farming on Farmer Livelihoods in Kenya

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Researchers Go Shimada Harue Kitajima

Country Kenya

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Access to Markets Livelihoods Technology Adoption Training & Mentoring Women & Girls

The Impacts of Business Training and Mentoring for Women-Owned Businesses in Kenya

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Researchers David McKenzie Susana Puerto

Country Kenya

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Human Capital & Skills Women & Girls

Worker Selection, Productivity, and Firm Development in India

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Researchers David Atkin Antoinette Schoar

Country India

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Human Capital & Skills Training & Mentoring

Evaluating Malawi’s Public Works Program

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Researchers Kathleen Beegle Emanuela Galasso Jessica Goldberg

Country Malawi

Program Area Social Protection

Topics Food Security Livelihoods

Innovative Finance for Technology Adoption in Western Kenya

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Researchers Marshall Burke Edward Miguel

Country Kenya

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Access to Finance Insurance Product Design Savings Technology Adoption

The Effect of Local Elections on Embezzlement in Burkina Faso

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Researchers Malte Lierl

Country Burkina Faso

Program Area Governance

Topics Civil Service Motivation & Productivity Community Participation Electoral Participation Incentives Transparency & Accountability

Testing for Peer Screening and Enforcement in Microlending: Evidence from South Africa

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Researchers Gharad Bryan Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman

Country South Africa

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Microcredit

Market Linkages, Trade Costs and Technology Adoption in Rural Tanzania

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Researchers Jonathan Robinson Alan Spearot Shilpa Aggarwal Dahyeon Jeong

Country Tanzania

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Access to Markets Livelihoods Technology Adoption

The Impact of Individualized Information on Teacher Loan Forgiveness Uptake in the United States

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Researchers Brian Jacob Damon Jones Benjamin Keys

Country United States

Program Area US Finance

Topics Behavioral Design Financial Capability

Urban Density, Trust, and the Growth of Small Businesses in Lusaka, Zambia

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Researchers Nava Ashraf Alexia Delfino Edward Glaeser

Country Zambia

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance Access to Markets

The Effects of Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Burkina Faso

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Researchers Adrien Bouguen Markus Frölich Estelle Koussoubé Eugénie Maïga

Country Burkina Faso

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Food Security Technology Adoption

Agricultural Microinsurance for Sugar Cane Farmers in Kenya

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Researchers Lorenzo Casaburi Jack Willis

Country Kenya

Program Area Agriculture Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance Insurance Product Design Product Pricing Rural Finance

The Unintended Consequences of Bottom-up Accountability in Peru

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Researchers Renard Sexton

Country Peru

Program Area Governance

Topics Community Participation Conflict Electoral Participation Transparency & Accountability

Nudging Consumers to Use Tax Refunds to Repay High-Interest Debt

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Researchers Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman Jeremy Burke

Country United States

Program Area Financial Inclusion US Finance

Topics Behavioral Design Reminders

Water-Efficient, Foaming Soap Handwashing Stations in Kenya

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Researchers Clair Null Amy Pickering Pavani Ram Wit Wichaidit

Country Kenya

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Product Design Product Pricing WASH

‘Business in secret’: Contract enforcement and information sharing among Lagos used clothing traders

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Researchers Meredith Startz Shelby Grossman

Country Nigeria

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Markets Microenterprise

Productivity and Competition in India’s Brick Industry

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Researchers Daniel Keniston

Country India

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Markets Human Capital & Skills Technology Adoption

Interpersonal Communication to Encourage Use of Female Condoms in Zambia

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Researchers Rachna Nag Chowdhuri Thoai Ngo Jessie Pinchoff

Country Zambia

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Family Planning & Contraceptive Use Women & Girls

Using Text Messages to Improve Knowledge of Reproductive Health In Ghana

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Researchers Slawa Rokicki

Country Ghana

Program Area Education Health & Nutrition

Topics Family Planning & Contraceptive Use Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Mobile Health Women & Girls Youth

Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability in Bangladesh?

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Researchers Raymond Guiteras Mushfiq Mobarak

Country Bangladesh

Program Area Governance

Topics Community Participation

Market Learning and Transport Costs among Fertilizer Retailers in Tanzania

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Researchers Jonathan Robinson Shilpa Aggarwal Brian Giera Alan Spearot

Country Tanzania

Program Area Agriculture Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Markets

Interest Rate Sensitivity in Ghana

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Researchers Dean Karlan Christopher Udry Jonathan Zinman

Country Ghana

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance

Do investment tax credits stimulate investment? Evidence from tax reform in Chile

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Researchers Dina Pomeranz Sebastián Bustos

Country Chile

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Sensitivity to Interest Rates and Account Ownership Requirements for a Commitment Savings Account in the Philippines

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Researchers Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman

Country Philippines

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance Commitments Product Design Savings

Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets in Malawi

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Researchers Kelsey Jack Raymond Guiteras

Country Malawi

Topics Incentives

Motivating Take Up of Formal Savings

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Researchers Margaret McConnell

Country Ghana

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Financial Capability Savings

Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia

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Researchers Rema Hanna Sendhil Mullainathan

Country Indonesia

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Technology Adoption

Saving for Health Expenditures in Kenya

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Researchers Pascaline Dupas Jonathan Robinson

Country Kenya

Program Area Financial Inclusion Health & Nutrition

Topics Behavioral Design Commitments Financial Capability Product Design Savings

The Return to Capital for Small Retailers in Kenya

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Researchers Michael Kremer Jean Lee Jonathan Robinson Olga Rostapshova

Country Kenya

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance Microenterprise

Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors in Pakistan

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Researchers Adnan Khan Asim Khwaja Ben Olken

Country Pakistan

Program Area Governance

Topics Transparency & Accountability

Feasibility and Impact of Malaria Diagnostics in Ugandan Drug Shops

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Researchers Jessica Cohen Günther Fink

Country Uganda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Technology Adoption Product Pricing Product Design

Interest Rate Subsidies and Savings Behavior in Kenya

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Researchers Simone Schaner

Country Kenya

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Savings

Impact of Expanding the Supply of Consumer Credit to the Working Poor

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Researchers Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman

Country South Africa

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Microcredit

Pricing Health Products in Northern Uganda

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Researchers Gregory Fischer Dean Karlan Margaret McConnell Pia Raffler

Country Uganda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Access to Healthcare Microenterprise Product Pricing

The Effect of Information and Subsidies on Chlorine Usage in Zambia

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Researchers Nava Ashraf Kelsey Jack Emir Kamenica

Country Zambia

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Product Pricing

Incentivizing Safe Sex in Rural Tanzania

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Researchers Ramanhani Abdul Damien De Walque Erick Gong Julian Jamison Edward Miguel

Country Tanzania

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Cash Transfers

Effect of Media on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions in the United States

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Researchers Daniel Bergan Alan Gerber Dean Karlan

Country United States

Program Area Governance

Topics Community Participation Electoral Participation

Information and Social Interaction in Savings Decisions in the United States

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Researchers Esther Duflo

Country United States

Program Area Financial Inclusion US Finance

Topics Incentives Savings

Improving Political Engagement through First-Hand Experience with Municipal Councils in Burkina Faso

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Researchers Malte Lierl Marcus Holmlund

Country Burkina Faso

Program Area Governance

Topics Transparency & Accountability

Centralizing the Market for Sanitation Services in Accra

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Researchers Terence Johnson Molly Lipscomb

Country Ghana

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Technology Adoption WASH

Financial Coaching in Peru

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Researchers Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman

Country Peru

Program Area Financial Inclusion Financial Capability

Topics Financial Capability Training & Mentoring

Using Twitter to Transform SMEs

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Researchers Chaning Jang Jonathan Page

Country Kenya

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Technology Adoption

Strengthening Accountability Chains in Health Service Delivery in Uganda

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Researchers Karen Grépin Lynn Atuyambe James Habyarimana William Jack

Country Uganda

Program Area Governance Health & Nutrition

Topics Community Participation Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Mobile Health Transparency & Accountability

Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Public Procurement on the Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises

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Researchers Claudio Ferraz Frederico Finan Dimitri Szerman

Country Brazil

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Markets

Presumptive Taxation, Liquidity Constraints, and Tax Compliance in Kenya

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Researchers Lorenzo Casaburi Dina Pomeranz

Country Kenya

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance Community Participation Presumptive Taxation, Liquidity Constraints, and Tax Compliance in Kenya

Commitment Contracts for Smoking Cessation in the U.S.

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Researchers Dean Karlan Jonathan Zinman Jody Sindelar Daren Anderson Amanda Kowalski

Country United States

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Commitments

Does Sanitation Behavior Migrate? Evidence from Bangladesh

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Researchers Mushfiq Mobarak Raymond Guiteras Shyamal Chowdhury Marcella Alsan

Country Bangladesh

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics WASH

The Latrine Training Mat Project

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Researchers Silantoi Kisoso Michael Kremer Clair Null

Country Kenya

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Technology Adoption WASH Maternal & Child Health

Financial Literacy and Privatized Social Security in Mexico

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Researchers Justine Hastings

Country Mexico

Program Area Financial Inclusion Governance

Topics Financial Capability Product Design Training & Mentoring

Health Services Delivery in India (and Indonesia): Assessing and Improving the Availability and Quality of Medical Care

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Researchers Jishnu Das Alaka Holla Michael Kremer Manoj Mohanan Karthik Muralidharan Halsey Rogers

Country India Indonesia

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Product Pricing

Credit, Change, and Lost Sales: The Surprising Impact of Small Change on a Firm’s Profitability in Kenya

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Researchers Lori Beaman Jeremy Magruder Jonathan Robinson

Country Kenya

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Financial Capability

Unconditional Cash Grants for People with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

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Researchers Achyuta Adhvaryu Pamela Jakiela Dean Karlan

Country Uganda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Cash Transfers Unconditional Cash Grants for People with HIV/AIDS in Uganda HIV/AIDS Training & Mentoring

Using Messaging and Package Design to Increase Treatment Compliance with Antimalarial Medication

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Researchers Jessica Cohen Günther Fink

Country Uganda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Product Design Maternal & Child Health Malaria

Taxation and Government Accountability in Uganda

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Researchers Lucy Martin

Country Uganda

Program Area Governance

Topics Community Participation

Are SMEs Leaving Returns to Scale on the Table?

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Researchers Gharad Bryan Margaret McConnell

Country Ghana

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Exploring Early Education Programs in Peri-urban Settings in Africa: Johannesburg, South Africa

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Researchers Kelly Bidwell Loïc Watine

Country South Africa

Program Area Education

Topics Early Childhood Development Education Quality School Attendance

Exploring Early Education Programs in Peri-urban Settings in Africa: Nairobi, Kenya

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Researchers Kelly Bidwell Loïc Watine

Country Kenya

Program Area Education

Topics Early Childhood Development Education Quality School Attendance

Discrimination in the Job Market in the United States

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Researchers Marianne Bertrand Sendhil Mullainathan

Country United States

Communal Sanitation Solutions for Urban Slums in Orissa, India

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Researchers Sharon Barnhardt Judith Chevalier Mushfiq Mobarak

Country India

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Community Participation Product Pricing WASH

The Impact of Credit Constraints on Exporting Firms

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Researchers Mudit Kapoor Priya Ranjan Jibonayan Raychaudhuri

Country India

Program Area Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance Access to Markets Microenterprise

Informal Finance - Mapping Global Savings and Lending Practices

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Researchers Gregory Fischer Dean Karlan

Country Global

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Access to Finance Cash Transfers Microcredit Savings

Exploring Early Education Programs in Peri-urban Settings in Africa: Accra, Ghana

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Researchers Kelly Bidwell Loïc Watine

Country Ghana

Program Area Education

Topics Early Childhood Development Education Quality School Attendance

Exploring Early Education Programs in Peri-urban Settings in Africa: Lagos, Nigeria

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Researchers Kelly Bidwell Loïc Watine

Country Nigeria

Program Area Education

Topics Early Childhood Development Education Quality School Attendance

Commitment Savings Accounts for Farmers in Rwanda

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Researchers Maria Jones Florence Kondylis Mushfiq Mobarak

Country Rwanda

Program Area Agriculture Financial Inclusion

Topics Commitments Rural Finance Savings Technology Adoption

Rules of Thumb: Providing Timely Useful Financial Management Advice at Scale in India

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Researchers Shawn Cole Antoinette Schoar

Country India

Program Area Financial Inclusion Financial Capability Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Behavioral Design Financial Capability Human Capital & Skills Microenterprise Training & Mentoring

Balancing Health Benefits and Risks of ACT Subsidies for Africa

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Researchers Jessica Cohen Pascaline Dupas Simone Schaner

Country Kenya

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Malaria Product Pricing

Scaling Up an Entrepreneurial Model of Community Health Delivery in Uganda

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Researchers Martina Björkman Nyqvist Jakob Svensson

Country Uganda

Program Area Health & Nutrition

Topics Access to Healthcare Civil Service Motivation & Productivity Healthcare Quality Incentives Maternal & Child Health Microenterprise

Understanding How Agricultural Livelihoods Affect Nutrition in Burkina Faso

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Researchers Andrew Dillon Jennifer Blesh Andrew Jones Jérôme Somé

Country Burkina Faso

Program Area Agriculture

Topics Livelihoods Maternal & Child Health Nutrition

Adoption of Commitment Savings Accounts Among Garment Workers in Bangladesh

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Researchers Emily Breza Leora Klapper Martin Kanz

Country Bangladesh

Program Area Financial Inclusion

Topics Behavioral Design Product Design Savings

Enhancing the Productive Assets of Microentrepreneurs in Ghana

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Researchers Stephen J. Anderson Rajesh Chandy Anja Lambrecht Om Narasimhan

Country Ghana

Program Area Financial Inclusion Entrepreneurship & Private Sector Development

Topics Access to Finance Financial Capability Microenterprise

Debates: The Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives in Sierra Leone

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Researchers Kelly Bidwell Katherine Casey Rachel Glennerster

Country Sierra Leone

Program Area Governance

Topics Electoral Participation

Channeling Remittances to Education in El Salvador

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Researchers Dean Yang Kate Ambler Diego Aycinena

Country El Salvador

Program Area Education

Topics Remittances School Attendance