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Long-Term Diffusion of Swarna-Sub1 In India

Long-Term Diffusion and Impact of Flood-Tolerant Rice in India

Kyle Emerick
Alain de Janvry
Manaswini Rao
Elisabeth Sadoulet
In India, researchers leveraged a randomized evaluation of the distribution of a new seed variety to assess how the new seed spread within communities and social groups. They found that local social structures, such as the jati-caste system, influenced the extent of seed adoption. In particular...
A woman holds a protest sign in Brazil

Politicians, Publicly-Released Audits of Corruption, and Electoral Outcomes in Brazil

Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Taking advantage of a federal anticorruption program that randomly assigned municipalities to be audited, the researchers compared the electoral outcomes for mayors in two randomly selected groups of municipalities: those that were audited before and those that were audited after the 2004 election...
group of children

Price Sensitivity and Usage of Formal Transportation in Rural Malawi

Jessica Goldberg
Niall Keleher
Annika Müller
Gaël Raballand
Rebecca Thornton
Dean Yang
In Malawi, researchers used a randomized evaluation to study the introduction of a daily minibus service that connected five rural villages and the nearby market town. Although a majority of households used the new bus service, demand was very sensitive to price and was never sufficient to cover...
On the left, lights are installed in a classroom; on the right, students look at a screen at the front of the classroom delivering educational instruction.

School Electricity and Native Language Digital Media to Improve Student Learning in Tanzania

Hee Kwon (Samuel) Seo
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of school electrification, delivered alongside mixed-language digital educational materials, on student exam scores and pass rates. They found that neither increased electricity access nor learning material in their native language...
Man feed ballot into ballot box while volunteers help voters in background

Radio Public Service Announcements and Voter Participation Among Native Americans in the United States

Donald Green
Eline A de Rooij
Can media campaigns increase voter turnout among those underrepresented in the electorate? Researchers randomly assigned areas covered by Native American radio programming to either receive or not receive targeted radio messaging encouraging listeners to vote in the 2008 and 2010 US elections. The...
Bureau de vote sign in French

Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

Guillaume Liegey
Vincent Pons
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of a general voter outreach effort on the political participation of immigrants relative to participation of non-immigrants. The canvassing treatment increased voter turnout of immigrants without affecting turnout of non-immigrants.

Participatory Development and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Serena Cocciolo
Selene Ghisolfi
Researchers are conducting a lab-in-the-field study to measure the impact of a community-driven development program in Bangladesh on participants’ preferences and values about fairness, equity, civic engagement, and participatory decision-making.
side profile view of Chinese police officer

Testing Alternative Job Evaluation Schemes to Improve Civil Servant Work Performance in China

Guojun He
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Shaoda Wang
Qiong Zhang
Employers often rely on subjective performance evaluations by supervisors to gauge the performance of workers–particularly in the public sector, where civil servants’ work performance is hard to measure. However, relying on the opinions of local supervisors could cause subordinates to prioritize...