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Group of people in waiting room, in Mexico.

Offering Amenities to Increase Health Care Demand in Mexico

Achyuta Adhvaryu
Emilio Gutierrez
Anant Nyshadham
Jorge Tamayo
Researchers conducted an evaluation to test the impact of offering a high-amenity diagnostic consultation for cataracts at different prices on uptake of an underutilized service—cataract surgery—in Mexico. Lower prices for the high-amenity consultation increased exposure to amenities, which...
Market stall in Accra, Ghana

Cash and In-kind Transfers to Increase Profits of Microenterprises in Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps
David McKenzie
Simon Quinn
Christopher Woodruff
Microenterprises often struggle to survive and grow after their initial start-up. A key issue for policymakers is understanding how to best encourage the survival and growth of resource-constrained firms by using policy tools like unrestricted cash grants and conditional transfers of materials or...
Women working in factory.

Improving Productivity Through Soft Skills Training for Female Workers in the Ready-made Garment Industry in India

Achyuta Adhvaryu
Namrata Kala
Anant Nyshadham
Researchers found that, for female sewing workers in the largest private garment exporter in India, participating in a training program improved their soft skills and productivity and the firm experienced high financial returns.
women using sewing machines in a garment factory in Bangladesh

Addressing Bias by Promoting Women to Management Positions in Bangladesh

Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff
Researchers randomly assigned co-supervisors to production lines to evaluate the impact of exposing garment factory workers and supervisors to women managers on factory productivity, supervisor retention, and attitudes toward women. Several months after the intervention, there was no difference in...
Two sewing machines in a factory in Myanmar

Union Leaders and Factory Workers’ Collective Action in Myanmar

Laura Boudreau
Rocco Macchiavello
Virginia Minni
Mari Tanaka
Labor movements can improve workers’ lives but face great difficulty in getting workers to agree on common goals and take collective actions. In garment factory workers’ group discussions on minimum wage policies in Myanmar, researchers randomly included union leaders to study whether the presence...
A woman works at call center in customer service

Online Customer Discrimination against Female Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erin Kelley
Gregory Lane
Matthew Pecenco
Edward Rubin
Researchers evaluated the impact of gender-based discrimination on female teleworkers’ productivity in online sales interactions with customers in Africa. When a customer chat representative had a female-sounding name, it led to significantly fewer purchases, and slower and more reserved reactions...
Image of a cheerful woman, wearing a purple shirt and an apron and smiling in a coffee shop setting.

Gender-specific managerial training program and firm productivity in Colombia

Researchers are evaluating the impact of providing a gender-specific managerial training program on career advancement prospects for women and workplace productivity.
Bangladeshi garment workers in a factory in Dhaka.

Encouraging the Use of Formal Financial Services of Garment Workers through the Rollout of an Electronic Payment System in Bangladesh

Emily Breza
Martin Kanz
Leora Klapper
Researchers randomly assigned employees at garment factories in Bangladesh to either continue collecting their wages in cash, receive direct deposit wage payments into a payroll account, or receive an account but continued to receive wage payments in cash. Exposure to payroll accounts led to...