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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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Harvesting Rainfall: Experimental Evidence from Cistern Deployment in Northeast Brazil

Gustavo Bobonis
Paul Gertler
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Simeon Nichter
Distributing water cisterns in northeast Brazil led to fewer requests for private benefits from local politicians and fewer votes for incumbent mayors, who typically have more resources to engage in clientelism. Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and J-PAL's Latin America & Caribbean office are now working with...
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The Persuasive Effects of Televised Campaign Ads

Alan Gerber
James G. Gimpel
Donald Green
Daron R. Shaw
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Do Phone Calls Increase Voter Turnout in the United States?

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
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Belief Formation of Risks of Arsenic in Bangladesh

Lori Bennear
Alexander van Geen
Alexander Pfaff
H. B. Soumya
Alessandro Tarozzi
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Personality Traits and Responses to Persuasive Appeals among Voters in the United States

David Doherty
Conor M. Dowling
Alan Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Costas Panagopoulos
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Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment in the United States

Dean Karlan
Daniel H. Wood
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Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence From An Electricity Pricing Program

Patrick Baylis
Peter Cappers
Meredith Fowlie
C. Anna Spurlock
Catherine Wolfram
Researchers partnered with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California to evaluate the effects of a variety of enrollment schemes in time-varying pricing plans on electricity consumption. Results show that households which were enrolled in time-varying pricing plans by default tended to...
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Empowering Parents to Improve Education Quality in Rural Mexico

Paul Gertler
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia
Researchers in Mexico evaluated the impact of providing parent associations with larger grants and more information on educational outcomes. Providing information to parent associations reduced students’ disciplinary actions in schools without improving students’ test scores.