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Inter-religious Soccer Leagues to Promote Social Cohesion in Post-ISIS Iraq

Researchers evaluated the impact of mixed Christian-Muslim soccer teams on social cohesion and interactions between these groups in an ISIS-affected area of Iraq. Christians who played on mixed teams demonstrated a higher likelihood of engaging with Muslim teammates after the league ended, but the...
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Determining Optimal Subsidy Levels for Agricultural Insurance Take-up in China

Jing Cai
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
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Information to Increase Insurance Take-up and Reduce Market Risk in the United States

Richard Domurat
Isaac Menashe
Wes Yin
Researchers studied the impact of reminder letters addressing possible barriers related to information and behavior on insurance take-up, as well as their impact on health insurance market risk. The reminder letters reducing informational and behavioral barriers to enrollment increased insurance...
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Changing Beliefs, Changing Bribes in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
John Firth
Daniel Keniston
Ben Olken
Jeffrey Weaver

Diminishing the Effectiveness of Vote-buying in India

Srinivasan Vasudevan
To diminish the effect of bribes on voter behavior, researchers designed and evaluated a non-partisan anti-vote-buying radio campaign during the 2014 Indian general election. Researchers assessed whether voters in areas that were randomly assigned to receive the radio campaign became less likely to...
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Community Reconciliation in Sierra Leone

Jacobus Cilliers
Oeindrila Dube
Bilal Siddiqi
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Increasing the Transparency of Environmental Regulation in India

Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nick Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
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When do Media Stations Support Political Accountability? A Field Experiment in Mexico

Horacio Larreguy
Christopher Lucas
John Marshall
Researchers are using a randomized evaluation in Mexico to study the incentives media stations face when choosing to provide voters with indicators of their incumbent party’s performance in office.