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Group of women participating in electoral event supporting the African National Congress in South Africa

Using Technology to Promote Electoral Participation in South Africa

Karen Ferree
Clark Gibson
Danielle Jung
James Long
Craig McIntosh
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of the VIP:Voice, a digital election participation platform, to measure the impact of information and communications technologies on individuals’ political participation. Via the platform, researchers interacted with nearly 100,000 citizens, recruited...
Angled view of community members deliberating on electoral strategies in Benin

Using Deliberative Electoral Strategies to Overcome Clientelism in Benin

Thomas Fujiwara
Leonard Wantchekon
Town hall meetings in Benin reduced the ability of the most popular presidential candidate in that village to garner political support using clientelist tactics, and still appear to be effective for motivating people to attend the polls.
Two firm-worker women in blue sweaters and hats work on project at training facility

The Effect of Matching on Worker Skills versus Preferences on Firm-Worker Matches in South Africa

Robert Garlick
Lukas Hensel
Kate Orkin
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to improve the quality of job matches in South Africa. They matched applicants to entry-level vacancies using different types of information: workers’ preferences for job types; communication and socio-emotional skills; or grades and work experience.
Line of women wearing hair caps working in a factory in urban Ethiopia

Anonymity or Distance? Removing Obstacles to Youth Employment in Urban Ethiopia

Girum Abebe
Stefano Caria
Marcel Fafchamps
Paolo Falco
Simon Franklin
Simon Quinn
Researchers evaluated and compared the impact of two different job search assistance policies on employment outcomes for young job seekers in Addis Ababa. Helping youth signal their skills to employers improved their earnings and job duration four years later, especially for youth who would usually...
Farmer in long-sleeve blue shirt using hand hoe to tend to crops in Malawi

Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets in Malawi

Raymond Guiteras
Kelsey Jack
Researchers evaluated the effect of randomly offering varied wages to bean-sorting workers in rural Malawi. While offering higher wages caused workers to increase their productivity, it did not attract more productive workers.
Women looking at phone

The Impact of Encouraging Mobile Money Use on Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania

Rachel M. Heath
Emma Riley
Supporting women’s empowerment, the ability for women to control their resources and make their own choices, is a common policy goal both as its own outcome and as a vehicle to drive other change like improving children’s health and education. Many empowerment programs have targeted women’s income...
Three women doing paperwork and and making financial decisions together in the Philippines

Increasing Financial Aspirations to Improve Financial Decision-Making and Outcomes in the Philippines

David McKenzie
Aakash Mohpal
Dean Yang
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test whether encouraging entrepreneurs to raise their aspirations helped them improve their financial decisions and outcomes. The aspirations training led individuals to set higher savings goals, but most participants failed to achieve their goals.
Domestic workers wearing surgical masks attend a training in Kenya.

Mask Up! Testing strategies to increase mask use in Kenya

Dennis Egger
Aleksandra Jakubowski
Edward Miguel
Michael Walker
Although conflicting recommendations have been issued, recent evidence suggests that face masks may significantly reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, questions remain on how to effectively promote mask adoption. Research are conducting a randomized evaluation to evaluate the impact of free...