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A journalist holding a microphone speaks with community leaders and citizens in Tanzania.

Impact of Watchdog Journalism on Public Service Provision in Tanzania

Dylan Groves
Researchers examined the impact of local watchdog journalism investigations on public service provision. Local journalism improved government performance and service delivery, likely by helping central governments monitor bureaucrats at the district-level.
Loan officer at her desk

Performance Incentives for Commercial Bank Loan Officers to Improve Effort on Risk-Assessment and Lending Decisions in India

Shawn Cole
Martin Kanz
Leora Klapper
Researchers partnered with a commercial bank in India to study the effect of paying loan officers according to the performance of their loans on the quality of their lending decisions. Loan officers working under this incentive scheme exerted greater screening effort, approved fewer loans, and...
Fruit vendors staying connected to groups on their phones in Chile

El uso de grupos de apoyo como medio para fomentar el ahorro

Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz
A male canvasser speaks to couple in front of door for votes in local election in the United States.

Getting Out the Vote in Local Elections in the United States

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
David W. Nickerson
Researchers examined the impact of door-to-door canvassing on voter turnout in the 2001 local elections in six US cities. The results indicate that voters who were contacted by canvassers were significantly more likely to vote in a wide variety of settings.
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Evaluating Three Early Childhood Development Programs in Cambodia

Karen Macours
two female farmers looking at a cell phone

Mobile Money and Agricultural Investment in Mozambique

Catia Batista
Pedro Vicente
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of offering interest-paying mobile money saving accounts to farmers, and in some cases farmers’ friends, on their financial behavior such as agricultural investment. Providing farmers access to interest-bearing mobile savings accounts...

Research and Impacts of Digital Financial Services

NBER
A new paper describes recent evidence on what works for financial inclusion and identifies products and innovations that address key financial market failures facing poor households. Written by J-PAL affiliates Dean Karlan, Rohini Pande, Tavneet Suri, Jonathan Zinman, and co-authors, this paper also...
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The Impact of Incentives and Marketing on Commercial Toilet Use in Kenya

Johann Caro Burnett
Judy Chevalier
Mushfiq Mobarak
Despite expanding access to sanitary options such as community toilets, many individuals, especially in urban slums, continue to practice open defecation. One potential explanation is that open defecation has become an ingrained habit. Applying lessons from psychology and neuroscience, researchers...