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Using Cell Phones to Monitor the Delivery of Government Payments to Farmers in India

Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
Jeffrey Weaver
A man and a woman unload crates of vegetables off a truck

Graduating the Ultra-Poor in Egypt

Adam Osman
William Parienté
Ragui Assaad
Christine Valente

Introducing Financial Services to Native Amazonians in Bolivia

Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Ricardo Godoy
Margaret McConnell
Harry Patrinos

The Impacts of Gender Norms and Women’s Relationship Status on Career Ambitions in the United States

Leonardo Bursztyn
Amanda Pallais
Thomas Fujiwara

The Impact of Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Program on Child Health in Western Rwanda

Sheela S. Sinharoy
Wolf-Peter Schmidt
Ronald Wendt
Leodomir Mfura
Erin Crossett
Karen Grepin
William Jack
Bernard Ngabo Rwabufigiri
James Habyarimana
Tom Clasen
A girl sits at her desk reading a textbook.

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

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac
Ipek Mumcu
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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...

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