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Finanzas
Eliminating Behavioral Barriers to Saving through a Tablet App for the Base of the Pyramid in Paraguay
Jeanne Lafortune , Jose Tessada, Liliana Olarte, Viviane AzevedoDespite the benefits of accumulating savings, low-income individuals rarely use formal savings products. Researchers are partnering with a financial institution in Paraguay to evaluate the impact of a range of tablet-based applications, which remind people to save and help them make savings goals, on savings behavior of low-income individuals.
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Mercado Laboral
Discriminación en el Mercado Laboral en los Estados Unidos
Postulantes con nombres tradicionalmente de blancos reciben más llamadas de empleadores que postulantes con nombres tradicionalmente de Afro-Americanos, lo cual revela discriminación en contra de estos nombres en Chicago y Boston.
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Finanzas, Salud
Extendiendo un seguro de salud al sector informal a través de Instituciones de Microfinanzas en Nicaragua
Erica Field, Rebecca Thornton , Laurel Hatt, Mursaleena Islam, Freddy Solis Diaz, Martha Gonzalez Monada, Anne FitzpatrickProveer un seguro de salud subsidiado a familias pobres en Nicaragua, puede mejorar sustancialmente la tasa de adopción de dicho producto.
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Economía Política y Gobernabilidad
Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability in Bangladesh?
Mushfiq Mobarak , Raymond GuiterasThere is little evidence to lend credence to or discredit the argument that development aid undermines political accountability. In Tanore district of Bangladesh, researchers tested the impact of providing external subsidies for sanitation projects on the behavior of local leaders and, subsequently, on constituents’ perception of their performance. They found that while constituents credited leaders for the sanitation program when the funding source was unknown, they did not credit local leaders when funding information was made transparent.
Economía Política y Gobernabilidad, Salud
Motivating Bureaucrats through Performance Recognition in Nigeria
Julian Jamison
, Varun Gauri, Nina Mazar, Owen Ozier, Shomikho Raha, Karima Saleh
Researchers introduced a performance recognition system for employees to improve record keeping in clinics in Ekiti and Niger, Nigeria. They found that the performance recognition improved record keeping in Ekiti but not in Niger.
Mercado Laboral
The Impacts of Job-search Support in Urban Ethiopia
Marcel Fafchamps
, Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn
Researchers evaluated and compared the impact of two different job search assistance policies on employment outcomes for young job seekers in Addis Ababa. Helping youth signal their skills to employers improved their earnings and job duration four years later, especially for youth who would usually fare the worst in the labor market.
Salud
Assessing the effect of conditional cash transfers on pregnancy outcomes in France
Esther Duflo, Bruno Crépon
, Marc Bardou, Anne-Claire Bertaux, Aurélie Godard-Marceaux, Astrid Eckman-Lacroix, Elise Thellier, Frédérique Falchier, Philippe Deruelle, Muriel Doret, Xavier Carcopino-Tusoli, Thomas Schmitz, Thiphaine Barjat, Mathieu Morin, Franck Perrotin, Ghada Hatem, Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, Isabelle Fournel, Laurent Laforet, Nicolas Meunier-Beillard, Isabelle Le Ray
Women of lower socioeconomic status adhere to recommended prenatal care regimens at lower rates, which can have adverse effects on both maternal and newborn outcomes. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact a financial incentive of € 30 ($33.89) per visit per month on rates of treatment adherence and on health outcomes.
Finanzas, Salud
The impact of cash transfers, aspirations, and goal-setting on economic outcomes and well-being
Stefan Dercon
, Kate Orkin, Robert Garlick, Mahreen Mahmud, Richard Sedlmayr, Johannes Haushofer
Previous research has shown that people living in poverty are more likely to experience psychological constraints, such as lower aspirations, goals, and beliefs about their ability to act effectively, which partly arise from the difficulties of living in extreme poverty. Researchers are partnering with GiveDirectly to conduct a randomized evaluation of the impact of unconditional cash transfers...
Educación, Economía Política y Gobernabilidad
The effects of performance pay among private school teachers in Pakistan
Christina Brown, Tahir Andrabi
Researchers are working with a large private school network in Pakistan to evaluate the effects of performance raises based on observed performance versus those based on student performance on teacher behavior and student learning.
Finanzas, Educación
High Hopes: Saving for High School with a Mobile-Money Lock-Box in Kenya
In Kenya, researchers partnered with a telecom operator to evaluate the impact of a commitment savings account on account usage, savings and loans, and school enrollment. The study found that many parents used the accounts and that among those who took up the account, total financial savings increased by three to four times. Parents who saved were also 18-24 percentage points more likely to...