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Deposit Collectors in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf
Dean Karlan
Wes Yin
Researchers evaluated the impact of a door-to-door deposit-collecting service, which regularly collected funds from clients’ homes to be deposited at a local bank, on clients’ savings. Results demonstrated that clients who lived farther from a bank were more likely to take up the service, and...

Communal Sanitation Solutions for Urban Slums in Orissa, India

Sharon Barnhardt
Judy Chevalier
Mushfiq Mobarak
Girls in school uniforms in India

Changing Teenage Girls' Aspirations and Educational Attainment through Increased Female Representation in Leadership in India

Lori Beaman
Esther Duflo
Rohini Pande
Petia B. Topalova
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Identity in Charitable Giving in the United States

Judd Kessler
Katherine Milkman
Kids in school

Reducing School Violence and Harassment in France

Yann Algan
Nina Guyon
Elise Huillery

Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets in Malawi

Raymond Guiteras
Kelsey Jack
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Mobilizing Group Membership: The Impact of Personalization and Social Pressure Emails in the United States

James N. Druckman
Donald Green

Voting and Habit Formation in the United States

Alan Gerber
Donald Green
Ron Shachar
During the 1998 state and federal elections and the 1999 city elections in New Haven, Connecticut, researchers found that face-to-face canvassing and direct mail appeals significantly increased voter turnout not only during the election year but also in the election a year after.