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Eliminating Behavioral Barriers to Saving through a Tablet App for the Base of the Pyramid in Paraguay

Viviane Azevedo
Jeanne Lafortune
Liliana Olarte
José Tessada
Women in India moving receptacles of dirt.

Impact of Financial Control on Women's Labor Supply and Gender Norms in India

Erica Field
Charity Troyer Moore
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Simone Schaner
Researchers worked with local banks and the state government of Madhya Pradesh to provide women with their own bank accounts, training on how to use them, and direct deposit of wages earned through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to measure the impact of...
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Cash Transfers’ Effects on Food Consumption in Mexico

Manuela Angelucci
Carlos Chiapa
Silvia Prina
Irvin Rojas
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the anti-poverty cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on food consumption for families living in poverty in Mexico. Households consumed enough food both before and after receiving the cash transfer.
Man looks at his phone on a farm in Bangladesh.

Improving Financial Inclusion through Mobile Banking in Bangladesh

Researchers partnered with bKash, one of the leading mobile money providers in Bangladesh, to evaluate the impact of targeted training programs on mobile banking uptake among migrant households. Training increased migrants’ and their families’ adoption of mobile banking, with women adopting the...

Increasing Access to Infrastructure and Property Values through Urban Investment in Mexico

Tito Alegria
Leonardo Iacovone
Craig McIntosh
Gerardo Ordoñez
Daniel Rogger
Luis Sanchez-Bayardo
René Zenteno

Promoting Productive Inclusion and Resilience in National Safety Nets: A Four-Country Evaluation in the Sahel

Thomas Bossuroy
Markus Goldstein
Dean Karlan
Harounan Kazianga
William Pariente
Patrick Premand
Catherine Thomas
Christopher Udry
Julia Vaillant
Kelsey Wright
In partnership with country governments and the World Bank, the research team has been evaluating how different productive packages impact the wellbeing and economic stability of safety net beneficiaries in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. In Niger, a multi-faceted economic inclusion...
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Tailored Unconditional Cash Transfers: Preferred Size and Timing in Kenya

Anandi Mani
Sendhil Mullainathan
Paul Niehaus
Anuj Shah

Determinants of Delinquency in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Omar Robles
Researchers found that both individuals with higher moral standards and individuals who were the least naïve displayed lower default rates than other groups. They also found that survey-based social capital measures did not predict loan default for these individual loans, contrary to the results...