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Women as Policy Makers
Balsakhi Program
Discrimination in the Job Market
Information and Social Interaction in Savings Decisions
Computer-Assisted Learning Project
Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural India
Measuring the Impact of School Inputs in Kenya
Interest Rates and Consumer Credit
Marketing Effects in a Consumer Credit Market
Business and Health Education for Microcredit Clients
Commitment Savings Products
Primary School Deworming Project
Balwadi Health Program
Incentives to Learn in Kenya
School Choice in Colombia
Peer Effects, Alcohol, and College Roommates
Peer Effects, Diversity, and College Roommates
Teacher Incentives
Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale
The Rockefeller Effect
Textbooks and Test Scores
The Illusion of Sustainability
Social Learning about Health in Kenya
Saving Incentives for Low and Middle Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H & R Block
Improving Primary Education Management in Madagascar (AGEMAD)
Combatting Corruption in Community Development
Political Institutions and Local Public Goods
Information and Community Mobilization
Using Encouragement to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Saving
Elasticities of Demand: Interest Rates and Consumer Credit in South Africa
Deposit Collectors in the Philippines
Effect of Media on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions in the U.S.
Impact of Small Consumer Loans on the Working Poor in South Africa
Psychological Responses to Microfinance Loan Recovery Strategies in Peru
Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment in Kenya
Ongoing Projects
HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Primary Schools in Kenya
Affirmative Action
Bank Accounts: Take Up and Impact
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Group Versus Individual Liability
Valuing Trust in Shantytowns
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Western Kenya
Kenya Life Panel Survey
Healthcare and health status in Udaipur district, Rajasthan
School Meals
Long-Term Impacts of School Choice in Colombia
Extra Teachers in Kenya: Peer Effects, Pupil Teacher Ratios and Teacher Incentives
Measuring the impact of microfinance in Hyderabad, India
Community Driven Development in Sierra Leone
Rigorous Assessment of Microcredit in Rural Morocco
Charitable Giving
Conditional Community Cash Transfers
Incentives to Stay HIV Negative in Malawi
Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution, and Respiratory Health in India
Providing Health Insurance Through Microfinance Networks in Rural India
Credit with Health Insurance: Evidence from the Philippines
Measuring the Impact of Microcredit in the Philippines
Anti-smoking Commitment Savings in the Philippines
Debt Trap Experiment in the Philippines
Determinants of Delinquency: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
Emergency Savings Accounts for Remittance Receivers in Mexico
Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas in Peru
Impact of Rural Banking Program on Savings, Consumption Smoothing, and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Kenya
Interest Rate Sensitivities to Micro-loans according to Poverty Level in Ghana
Interest Rate Sensitivity among Microfinance Clients in the Philippines
Interest Rate Sensitivity among Village Banking Clients in Mexico
Inviting Husbands to Female Solidarity Groups in Mexico
Measuring Demand for Health Insurance in the Philippines
Psychology of Savings: Evaluation of Commitment Savings Programs in the Philippines
Evaluating the Microfinance and Health Protection Initiative in Benin
Peeling Back the Layers of Group Liability in Bolivia
Teacher and Student Motivation, Family Participation, and Student Achievement in Rural India
Police Performance, Community Policing, and Public Perception in Rajasthan, India
Identifying retail distribution strategies for long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) in malaria-endemic areas
Misclassification in the Targeted Public Distribution System in India
Education Information Intervention in Sierra Leone
Counseling the Unemployed in France
Counseling Welfare Recipients in France
Counseling Scheme for the Young and Educated Unemployed in France
Helping the Ultra-Poor Use Microfinance in India
Household Water Connections in Urban Morocco
Community-Based Monitoring of Primary Health Care Providers in Uganda
Participation and Accountability in Health Care Provision in Uganda
Extending health insurance to the informal sector through microfinance in Nicaragua
Menstruation and Education in Nepal
Empowering Girls in Rural Bangladesh
Experiment on Micro Finance Repayment Schedules in West Bengal
Powerful Women: Female Leadership and Gender Bias
Business Training for Women in Ahmedabad, India
Urban Housing in Ahmedabad, India
Financial Innovation and Risk Management: Rainfall Insurance
Financial Innovation and Risk Management II: Futures Prices and Risk Hedging
Financial Literacy, Access to Finance, and the Effect of Being Banked
Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor in Bangladesh
Human Capital, Financial capital, and the Economic Empowerment of Female Adolescents: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Uganda and Tanzania
Designing Conditional Cash Transfers in Education: Colombia Subsidios Program
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Shawn Cole
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Rema Hanna
Dean Karlan
Michael Kremer
Dan Levy
Leigh Linden
Edward Miguel
Sendhil Mullainathan
Karthik Muralidharan
Ben Olken
Rohini Pande
Jonathan Robinson
Antoinette Schoar
Rebecca Thornton
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