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Pricing Schemes and Irrigation Techniques for Water Conservation and Farm Profits in Bangladesh

Kyle Emerick
Manzoor Dar
Ujjayant Chakravorty
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The Impact of a Quiz-Style Information Campaign on Covid-19 Prevention in the United States

Susan Athey
Angela Duckworth
Dean Karlan
Erika Kirgios
Michael Luca
Katherine Milkman
Molly Offer-Westort
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The Impacts of In-kind Food Transfers versus Electronic Vouchers on Poverty Reduction in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Elan Satriawan
Sudarno Sumarto
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Long-Term Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua

Karen Macours
Tania Barham
John A. Maluccio
A boy washes his hands while other students are waiting in line for their turn

The Impact of Sanitation and Hand-Washing Promotion Campaigns on Child Health in Tanzania

Bertha Briceño
Aidan Coville
Paul Gertler
Sebastian Martinez
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The Effectiveness of Financial Disclosure in the United Kingdom

Paul D. Adams
Stefan Hunt
Christopher Palmer
Redis Zaliauskas
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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...

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...
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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

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

Sule Alan
Seda Ertac