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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
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Graduating the Ultra-Poor in Egypt

Adam Osman
William Parienté
Ragui Assaad
Christine Valente

Introducing Financial Services to Native Amazonians in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Ricardo Godoy
Margaret McConnell
Harry Patrinos

The Impacts of Gender Norms and Women’s Relationship Status on Career Ambitions in the United States

Leonardo Bursztyn
Amanda Pallais
Thomas Fujiwara

The Impact of Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Program on Child Health in Western Rwanda

Sheela S. Sinharoy
Wolf-Peter Schmidt
Ronald Wendt
Leodomir Mfura
Erin Crossett
Karen Grepin
William Jack
Bernard Ngabo Rwabufigiri
James Habyarimana
Tom Clasen
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Teachers’ traditional beliefs about gender negatively impact the academic performance of girls in Turkey

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac
Ipek Mumcu
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Limiting Learning Loss using Phone-based Programming during Covid-19 in Botswana

Noam Angrist
Peter Bergman
Caton Brewster
Moitshepi Matsheng
Working in Botswana, researchers rapidly evaluated a phone-based remote learning program aimed at keeping children engaged with math during the Covid-19 pandemic. Students who received weekly SMS messages and phone calls to review math exercises increased their math skills after twelve weeks, while...
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The Value of Health Insurance: A Randomized Evaluation in India

Cynthia Kinnan
Gabriella Conti
Kosuke Imai
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Anup Malani
Alessandra Voena
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The Economic, Health and Psychological Effects of Health Insurance and Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Johannes Haushofer
Matthieu Chemin
Chaning Jang
Justin Abraham
Researchers evaluated the effects of a free health insurance policy and UCTs of the same value on the economic, health, and psychological outcomes of informal workers in Kenya. Participants who received health insurance self-reported reduced stress and had lower cortisol levels; UCTs led to fewer...
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Does Continuous Professional Development Improve Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia?

Andreas de Barros
Nico Vromant
Researchers are evaluating the impact of the “Teaching at the Right Level” program on students’ foundational literacy and mathematics skills.
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Visualization of Future Benefits to Increase Preventive Health Investment, Savings, and Labor Supply in Kenya

Anett John
Kate Orkin
Researchers evaluated the impact of light-touch psychological interventions on health and economic outcomes, with a particular focus on the chlorination of drinking water. After 12 weeks, visualization increased objectively measured chlorination; reduced diarrhea episodes among children and...
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The Impact of Daily Quizzing on Student Achievement in Kenya

Michael Kremer
Joost de Laat
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impact of daily quizzing on students’ learning outcomes in Kenya.
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The Impact of Personalized SMS Messages to Parents on Student Achievement in Kenya

Michael Kremer
Joost de Laat
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impact of an SMS-based information provision program on students’ learning outcomes in Kenya.
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The Impact of Rapid Performance Feedback on Student Achievement in Nigeria

Michael Kremer
Joost de Laat
Researchers are partnering with Bridge International Academies to evaluate the impacts of interleaved problem sets, which allow for rapid performance feedback, on students’ learning outcomes in Nigeria.