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Young woman waters her newly-planted field in Ghana, J-PAL Africa evaluation summary

Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana

Dean Karlan
Robert Osei
Isaac Osei-Akoto
Christopher Udry
Researchers in northern Ghana conducted a randomized evaluation to assess the underlying reason for underinvestment by examining the relative effectiveness of cash grants and insurance grants in improving crop yields. Results suggest that uninsured risk, rather than a lack of capital, was the...
Men and women sit in Malawi village

Insurance, Credit and Technology Adoption in Malawi

Xavier Giné
Dean Yang
In Malawi, researchers examined the effect of bundling rainfall index insurance with a credit program on farmers’ demand for credit. They found that bundling insurance with credit reduced the demand for credit, from 33 percent for credit alone to 17.6 percent for the bundled product.
Man in glasses writes on papers

Discrimination in Hiring and Anonymous CVs in France (CV Anonymes)

Thomas Le Barbanchon
Luc Behaghel
Bruno Crépon
In collaboration with the French employment agency Pôle Emploi, researchers evaluated whether interview and hiring rates of minority candidates changed when employers collect anonymous resumes. Making resumes anonymous did not affect the average number of interviews and job offers volunteer firms...
Two girls talk to each other while looking at something on a laptop.

Evaluando la Efectividad de Módulos de Educación Sexual en Línea en Colombia

Alberto Chong
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Dean Karlan
Martin Valdivia

Network Effects between Small & Medium Enterprises in Uganda

Francisco Campos
Markus Goldstein
Obert Pimhidzai
Antoinette Schoar
Mattea Stein
Bilal Zia
Many governments and organizations use finance and management training as a tool to promote small and medium enterprise growth in developing countries, but it is not clear whether or how information from these trainings is shared across SMEs operating in the same area.
A health worker wearing white gloves doing a finger prick test for HIV

Promoviendo sexo seguro en Tanzania

Ramadhani Abdul
Faraji Abilahi
William Dow
Erick Gong
Zachary Isdahl
Julian Jamison
Boniphace Jullu
Suneeta Krishnan
Albert Majura
Carol A. Medlin
Edward Miguel
Jeanne Moncada
Sally Mtenga
Mathew Alexander Mwanyangala
Rose Nathan
Laura Packel
Julius Schachter
Kizito Shirima
Damien de Walque
man cuts plants

Superando las transferencias monetarias condicionadas en República Dominicana

Greg Fischer
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
People use escalators in train station in China

Evaluating the Impact of Working from Home on Productivity and Work-Life Balance in China

Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying
In an attempt to reduce employee turnover and increase productivity, companies are increasingly allowing employees to work from home. Researchers analyzed the impact of working from home on productivity and work-life balance by randomly assigning some employees of a call center in China to work from...