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Urban Property Rights in Mongolia

Erica Field
Leigh Linden
Shing-Yi Wang
Researchers are evaluating the effect of an ownership assistance program on residents’ income, assets, and general financial behavior.
Four women carrying objects in a field

Comparing Cash and Mobile Transfers in Niger

Jenny Aker
Rachid Boumnijel
Amanda McClelland
Niall Tierney
In partnership with Concern Worldwide, researchers examined the relative effectiveness of traditional versus mobile cash transfers in Niger. Households who received electronic transfers had more diverse diets than those who received traditional cash transfers, in part due to time savings and shifts...
A line forms outside of Banco de la Nacion

Financial Trust Workshops to Encourage Savings Behaviors in Peru

Camila Navajas Ahumada
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in rural Peru to assess the impact of providing a workshop designed to foster trust in banks on participants’ levels of trust, financial literacy, and saving and account use patterns of cash transfer recipients. Overall, participants who were offered the...
Fishermen in boats.

Protecting Fisheries through Enforcement and Information Campaigns in Chile

Mushfiq Mobarak
In partnership with the Chilean National Fish Service (Sernapesca), researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of enforcement visits to fish markets and a consumer information campaign on the illegal sale of hake fish. They found that both the information campaign and...
A voting box with ballots to the left, text on the top of the image reads "Denuncie Delitos Electorales"

The Impact of Citizen Monitoring on the 2019 Mayoral Elections in Colombia

Natalia Garbiras-Diaz
Mateo Montenegro
Researchers evaluated the impact of encouraging citizen monitoring on the 2019 mayoral elections in Colombia. The intervention resulted in higher reports from citizens and a reduction in observed irregularities in the election.
city of Manuas, Brazil

Information on Tax Compliance and Perceptions of Equity in Tax Policy in Brazil

Michael Best
François Gerard
Evan Kresch
Joana Naritomi
Laura Zoratto
Researchers are conducting an evaluation that randomized the provision of information in a survey to improve the likelihood that citizens paid their municipal property taxes and understood the role that unequal tax burdens played in determining the likelihood of people paying their full tax burden...
city

Incentivizing Property Tax Inspectors through Performance-Based Postings in Pakistan

Adnan Khan
Asim Khwaja
Ben Olken
Together with the provincial government, researchers evaluated the impact of a performance-based incentive scheme on tax inspectors’ performance in Punjab, Pakistan. The incentive scheme allowed tax inspectors to choose their next posting location based on their past performance; specifically, how...
Empty polling place with privacy screen emblazoned with American flag and the word "vote"

The Effects of Reciprocity in Voter Mobilization Calls on Voter Turnout in the United States

Albert Fang
Alan Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
Catlan Reardon
Researchers evaluated the role of reciprocity in increasing voter turnout through voter mobilization calls by varying whether an initial phone call included a plausible sign of good will by the campaign—an offer to follow up reminding them to vote.