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Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya

Nava Ashraf
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Researchers evaluated whether a package of services, designed to help link smallholder farmers to commercial banks, retail farm suppliers, transportation services, and exporters, could help small farmers in Kenya adopt, finance, and market export crops, and thus make more income. One year after the...

Group Versus Individual Liability in the Philippines

Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
In this study, researchers randomly selected existing group-lending centers to convert to an individual liability model. They found no difference in repayment rates between individuals assigned individual liability and those assigned group liability, no change in overall profitability for the bank...

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

Mary Kay Gugerty
Michael Kremer
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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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Near and Dear? Evaluating the Impact of Neighbor Diversity on Inter-Religious Attitudes

Sharon Barnhardt
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Cleaning Springs in Kenya

Michael Kremer
Jessica Leino
Edward Miguel
Alix Zwane

Using Encouragement to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Saving in Peru

Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jonathan Zinman
Researchers examined the impact of an initiative to promote savings, through financial incentives, reminders, and messaging, on the savings behavior of the urban poor in Peru. Preliminary results found that the initiative increased the probability that clients reached their savings goals; negatively...
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Encouraging Teacher Attendance through Monitoring with Cameras in Rural Udaipur, India

Esther Duflo
Rema Hanna
Stephen Ryan
This study estimated the effect of financial incentives on teacher attendance on students' attendance and math and language levels. The incentives increased teacher attendance and teaching time, and student test scores rose as a result.