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School-Based Financial Education for Improved Financial Decision-Making and Academic Performance among Youth in Ghana

James Berry
Dean Karlan
Menno Pradhan
In southern and eastern Ghana, researchers evaluated two youth financial literacy programs to test their impact on savings, labor, academic performance, and financial decision-making. One program integrated financial and social education, while the second only offered financial education. Both...
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Contracting for Health in Cambodia

Indu Bhushan
Erik Bloom
David Clingingsmith
Rathavuth Hong
Elizabeth King
Michael Kremer
Brad Schwartz
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Empowering Women through Land Tenure Regularization: Evidence from the Impact Evaluation of the National Program in Rwanda

Daniel A
Klaus Deininger
Eliana La Ferrara
Markus Goldstein
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Does Reading During the Summer Build Reading Skills? Evidence from the United States

Jonathan Guryan
James Kim
David Quinn
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Financial Coaching in Peru

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
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Nudging Consumers to Use Tax Refunds to Repay High-Interest Debt

Jeremy Burke
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation in the United States

Justine Hastings
Thomas Kane
Douglas Staiger
Jeremy Weinstein

Local Elites and Targeted Social Programs in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the impact of elite capture in a conditional cash transfer program in Indonesia. Elite capture existed in some programs, but the welfare losses created were small, suggesting that improving administrative capabilities in targeting methods might...