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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
Three school girls stand with a chalkboard sign that reads "Education."

Providing Life Skills Training and Mentoring To Reduce School Dropout Among Girls in India

Eric Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight
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Evaluating the Impact of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Outcomes in the United States

Brian Jacob
Max Kapustin
Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller
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Near and Dear? Evaluating the Impact of Neighbor Diversity on Inter-Religious Attitudes

Sharon Barnhardt
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Information, Accountability, and Governance Among the Urban Poor in Delhi, India

Abhijit Banerjee
Selvan Kumar
Rohini Pande
Felix Su
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Cleaning Springs in Kenya

Michael Kremer
Jessica Leino
Edward Miguel
Alix Zwane

The Rockefeller Effect: Looking at Organizations of the Disadvantaged in Kenya

Mary Kay Gugerty
Michael Kremer
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Role of information on the returns of postprimary education on school dropout

Francisco Gallego
Oswaldo Molina
Christopher Neilson
In Peru, IPA and J-PAL worked with researchers and the Ministry of Education to evaluate at scale two low-cost ways of providing relevant information to help students and their families make more informed decisions. Results suggest that the programs were effective at changing educational plans and...
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Disrupting Education? Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India

Alejandro Ganimian
Karthik Muralidharan
Abhijeet Singh
Researchers evaluated a computer-based adaptive learning platform (Mindspark) for secondary school students in urban India to measure the impact of customized learning technology on student test scores. The program increased test scores across all groups of students and was cost-effective compared...
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Financial Aid and College Access in the Dominican Republic

Juan Ariel Jimenez
Christopher Neilson
Sebastián Otero