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Women wait in line at a rural pregnancy clinic in Adapur, Bihar, India.

Training Informal Healthcare Providers to Improve the Quality of Care in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Chowdhury
Jishnu Das
Reshmaan Hussam
Informal healthcare workers with little to no training provide more than 70 percent of all primary care in rural India. In this study, researchers evaluated the impact of a nine-month training...
Students walking in a college campus in Canada

The Effect of Academic Achievement Awards on College Success in Canada

Joshua Angrist
Philip Oreopoulos
Tyler Williams
Researchers examined the impact of a program that offered financial merit awards combined with academic support services on the learning outcomes of Canadian university students. Results suggest that the impact of such incentives was modest.
women with pen and paper

Impact of Digital Financial Education and Information Provision on Gender-Based Violence in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Mathew Bird
Lina Cardona
Pablo Lavado
In Colombia, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a messaging-based program via WhatsApp focused on financial education, couples’ communication, and information provision on financial capability, women’s empowerment, and intimate partner violence.
Woman with long straight hair points to tablet and talks to friend about financial decisions in Brazil

Peer Effects and Financial Decisionmaking in Brazil

Leonardo Bursztyn
Florian Ederer
Bruno Ferman
Noam Yuchtman
Researchers tested the independent impact of two channels, social learning (when someone purchases an asset after a peer expresses a desire to purchase the same asset) and social utility (when someone feels he can gain more from an asset because his peer owns it), on financial decisions in Brazil...