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Incentives for Milk Cleanliness and Production Quality in Indian Cooperatives

Ashish Shenoy
Manaswini Rao
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The Effects of a Gender-based Violence (GBV) Curriculum on GBV and Education in Mozambique

Selim Gulesci
Sofia Amaral
Aixa Garcia-Ramos
Alejandra Ramos
Maria Micaela Sviatschi
Sarita Ore-Quispe
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The Impact of Disclosing Soft Skills Certificates at Recruitment on Labor Market Outcomes in Uganda

Vittorio Bassi
Aisha Nansamba
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Changing Gender Norms and Family Planning through a Mass Media Campaign in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster
Victor Pouliquen
Joanna Murray
Man carries buckets of water to house in dry landscape

Harvesting Rainfall: Experimental Evidence from Cistern Deployment in Northeast Brazil

Gustavo Bobonis
Paul Gertler
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Simeon Nichter
Turkish citizens gather at night in Taksim square with Turkish flags

The Impact of Information Campaigns on Voter Polarization in Turkey

Ceren Baysan
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Teaching Students Perspective-taking to Mitigate Social Exclusion of Refugee Children in Turkey

Sule Alan
Ceren Baysan
Mert Gumren
Elif Kubilay
Researchers partnered with the Ministry of Education in Turkey to conduct a randomized evaluation of Understanding Each Other, a program which aims to foster social cohesion through perspective-taking activities that encourage students to consider others’ perspectives. They found that the program...
Children studying in a classroom in Istanbul

Teachers’ traditional beliefs about gender negatively impact the academic performance of girls in Turkey

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac
Ipek Mumcu
To better understand gender inequalities in academic achievement, choice of occupation, and labor market outcomes, researchers studied the effect of teachers’ beliefs about gender roles on student achievement in Istanbul, Turkey. Girls who were taught by teachers with traditional gender views had...

Teaching Patience in Classrooms for Improved Student Decision-making and Behavior in Turkey

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac

How Malleable are Non-Cognitive Skills? Measuring the Impact of Increasing Grit in Turkey

Sule Alan
Teodora Boneva
Seda Ertac
Researchers worked with public elementary schools in Istanbul to measure the effects of a “grit curriculum” on fourth-grade students’ perseverance, competitiveness, and test scores. Students who were exposed to the grit curriculum in 2013 earned higher scores on math exams, and the program also...
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Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit in Turkey

Sule Alan
Teodora Boneva
Seda Ertac