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women using sewing machines in a garment factory in Bangladesh

Addressing Bias by Promoting Women to Management Positions in Bangladesh

Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff
Researchers randomly assigned co-supervisors to production lines to evaluate the impact of exposing garment factory workers and supervisors to women managers on factory productivity, supervisor retention, and attitudes toward women. Several months after the intervention, there was no difference in...
Attravtive woman in business suit wearing headset looks at computer screen in office setting in Argentina

The Impact of Physical Appearance on Employer Interest in Argentina

Florencia Lopez Boo
Martin A. Rossi
Sergio Urzua
In many countries around the world, there is growing concern that certain groups of people may face job market discrimination based on physical appearance. To test this theory, researchers randomly submitted resumes with photos of people with varying levels of attractiveness to measure the effect on...
Two sewing machines in a factory in Myanmar

Union Leaders and Factory Workers’ Collective Action in Myanmar

Laura Boudreau
Rocco Macchiavello
Virginia Minni
Mari Tanaka
Labor movements can improve workers’ lives but face great difficulty in getting workers to agree on common goals and take collective actions. In garment factory workers’ group discussions on minimum wage policies in Myanmar, researchers randomly included union leaders to study whether the presence...
A woman works at call center in customer service

Online Customer Discrimination against Female Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erin Kelley
Gregory Lane
Matthew Pecenco
Edward Rubin
Researchers evaluated the impact of gender-based discrimination on female teleworkers’ productivity in online sales interactions with customers in Africa. When a customer chat representative had a female-sounding name, it led to significantly fewer purchases, and slower and more reserved reactions...
Image of a cheerful woman, wearing a purple shirt and an apron and smiling in a coffee shop setting.

Gender-specific managerial training program and firm productivity in Colombia

Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing a gender-specific managerial training program on career advancement prospects for women and workplace productivity.

Teaching Students Perspective-taking to Mitigate Social Exclusion of Refugee Children in Turkey

Sule Alan
Ceren Baysan
Mert Gumren
Elif Kubilay
Researchers partnered with the Ministry of Education in Turkey to conduct a randomized evaluation of Understanding Each Other, a program which aims to foster social cohesion through perspective-taking activities that encourage students to consider others’ perspectives. They found that the program...
An older woman talks on her cell phone in India.

Providing Therapy and Cash Transfers to Improve Older Adult Mental Health in India

Researchers evaluated the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and cash transfers on functional impairment (or difficulty performing daily tasks), depression, and food security among adults 55 and older living alone in Tamil Nadu, India. At a three-week follow-up, cash transfers improved...
A man holding a folder stands in front of a house

Subsidized Land Titles, Social Institutions, and Land Formalization in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Pablo Balán
Augustin Bergeron
Gabriel Tourek
Jonathan Weigel
In Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a subsidized land titling program on both starting and completing land registration, as well as on citizens’ participation in social institutions. Being offered a land titling subsidy...