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The Impact of Tech-Training and Job Referrals for Youth in Kenya

David Atkin
Antoinette Schoar
Kiara Wahnschafft
Access to quality jobs is a pressing concern in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, researchers partnered with the technology company Sama and Innovations for Poverty Action to conduct a randomized evaluation of Sama’s training and job referral programs.
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Soliciting Preferences for Improved Volunteer Retention, Performance, and Employability in Kenya

Willa Friedman
Guthrie Gray-Lobe
Michael Kremer
Researchers are conducting an evaluation of the Government of Kenya’s G-United youth volunteer program to test the effect of randomly placing students in locations they prefer on the retention of volunteers in the program, their job performance, and their employment outcomes after the program.
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Using Cell Phones to Monitor the Delivery of Government Payments to Farmers in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a cell phone-based monitoring system on the delivery of government-issued payments for farmers in Telangana, India. The system significantly improved the likelihood of farmers ever receiving their payments as well as receiving them...
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Empowering Citizens through Community-Based Development Empower Citizens in Ghana

Christopher Udry
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of community-based development on political participation, public goods provision, and individual well-being in Ghana. They found that, although the community engagement program led to changes in local leadership, it was not an...
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Migration Subsidies and Rural Labor Markets in Bangladesh

Agha Akram
Shyamal Chowdhury
Mushfiq Mobarak
Researchers varied the proportion of travel grants offered to landless households in rural villages in Bangladesh to assess the impact of the grants on temporary migration and income during the agricultural lean season—one of the hardest economic times of the year due to drops in food affordability...
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Evaluating Transfer Size in a Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Seasonal Migrants in Indonesia

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a cash transfer program conditional on seasonal migration and an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) program on rural households’ decisions to migrate and migration season earnings in West-Timor, Indonesia. Relative to the UCT, the...
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Cash Transfers and Market Access to Increase Household Welfare in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Shilpa Aggarwal
Jenny Aker
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
David Park
Jon Robinson
Alan Spearot
In Liberia and Malawi, researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action, GiveDirectly, and USAID to evaluate the impact of an unconditional cash transfer and market access program on food security, spending, income, resilience to health shocks, intimate partner violence, and psychological...
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Using GPS-enabled Cellphones to Monitor Agricultural Extension Agents in Paraguay

Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Nicholas Y. Li
Laura Schechter
Researchers partnered with the Government of Paraguay to measure the impact of a new monitoring technology—GPS-enabled cell phones—on the job performance of agricultural extension agents (AEAs). Overall, cell phones improved AEAs’ performance by increasing the share of farmers visited, and...