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Providing information on wood heating to decrease indoor air pollution in France

Coralie Chevallier
Elise Huillery
Mathieu Perona
Rita Abdel Sater

Informing Policy with Research in Brazil

Jonas Hjort
Diana Moreira
Gautam Rao
Juan Francisco Santini
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Empowering Female Migrant Workers to Access Quality Overseas Placement Services in Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Firman Witoelar Kartaadipoetra
Simone Schaner
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A Multifaceted Approach to Increase Women’s Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Manuela Angelucci
Rachel M. Heath
Eva Noble
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Leveraging Teacher Incentives to Improve Student Performance and Reduce Dropout in Uganda

Adrienne Lucas
Researchers evaluated whether an alternative teacher incentive scheme, providing rewards based on the performance of all students, could help reduce dropout and improve student performance. Implementing the incentive scheme improved teacher effort. In schools with math books, the incentive scheme...
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Incorporating Non-Teacher Professionals into the Education System in Chile

Claudia Martinez Alvear
Francisco Gallego
Paul Gertler
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Improving the Lives of Individuals in Financial Distress in the United States

James Greiner
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Improving the Impact of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India

Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Simone Schaner
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How Boston’s Summer Employment Program Affects Youth Criminal Justice Outcomes

Alicia Sasser Modestino
Researchers evaluated whether Boston’s SYEP had an effect on the criminal justice outcomes of participants and sought to gauge the potential mechanisms driving these effects. The program reduced participants’ violent and property crime-related arraignments.
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Helping Students Transition from Mother Tongue to English Language Instruction through Summer Camps in South Africa

Cally Ardington
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Government Service Work and Citizen Complaints in Argentina

Financial Literacy and the Demand for Index Insurance in Kenya