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Motivating Citizens to Seek Political Office in Pakistan

Saad Gulzar
Yasir Khan
Girls in line to receive their scholarships in rural Niger

Secondary School Scholarships to Increase Girls' Skill Development, Empowerment, and Job Opportunities in Niger

Hélène Giacobino
Elise Huillery
Bastien Michel
Mathilde Sage
Three young women gathered around a lab bench build a robot together.

The Effects of STEM Summer Programs on College Major, Persistence, and Graduation for Underrepresented High School Students in the United States

Sarah Cohodes
Helen Ho
Silvia Robles

Improving Immunization Coverage Through Incentives, Reminders, and Social Networks in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Arun Chandrasekhar
Suresh Dalpath
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Matthew O. Jackson
Harini Kannan
Francine Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha
Victor Chernozhukov
Mert Demirer
Iván Fernández-Val
Young girls in the classroom

Increasing Menstrual Hygiene Awareness to Reduce School Dropout among Adolescent Girls in Madagascar

Karen Macours
Julieta Vera
Duncan Webb
Women in Liberia sit at tables with sewing machines and cloth in front of them. Instructors, including one wearing a vest from the Liberian Red Cross, smile at the front of the room.

The Impact of Psychosocial Therapy and Vocational Skills Training on Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Liberia

David Park
Naresh Kumar
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Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio
Laura Abramovsky
Kai Barron
Pedro Carneiro
George Stoye
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The Health Impacts and Effective Delivery of Maternal Cash Transfers in Myanmar

Erica Field
Elisa Maffioli

Enrolling Informal Sector Workers in National Health Insurance in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Amy Finkelstein
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Sudarno Sumarto
Arianna Ornaghi
A key challenge to achieving universal health coverage is that non-poor informal workers are difficult to enroll and retain in government health insurance programs. Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of various programs, including subsidies, registration assistance and...
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Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian Context: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jenny Aker
Researchers tested the relative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an unconditional cash transfer and a voucher program on household consumption and well-being in a camp for internally displaced persons in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Both programs increased food security and asset...
Larger cumulative transfers to the household significantly improved outcomes in many aspects of child physical, cognitive, and language development, both in the short and long term.

Role of Conditional Cash Transfers in Early Childhood Development in Mexico

Paul Gertler
Lynnette Neufeld
Lia Fernald
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The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers on Child Health in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver
In partnership with the Government of Jharkhand, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to study the impact of unconditional, framed cash transfers to pregnant women and lactating mothers on child health.
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Evaluating The Child Development Grant Program (CGDP) in Nigeria

Imran Rasul
Lucie Moore
Pedro Carneiro
A family operates their market stall together in Nicaragua.

The Impact of Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Health and Cognitive Development in Nicaragua

Karen Macours
Norbert Schady
Renos Vakis
In Nicaragua, researchers examined the impact of a national conditional cash transfer (CCT) program on early childhood health and development. They found that the program caused substantial and lasting improvements in child health and development outcomes. However, it seems that program components...