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The Medium-Term Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Health and Education in Indonesia

Nur Cahyadi
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Rizal Adi Prima
Elan Satriawan
Ekki Syamsulhakim
Researchers examined the medium-term impacts of a large-scale CCT program on health, education, and economic outcomes in Indonesia. Six years following the introduction of cash transfers, the program resulted in reductions in stunting, increased rates of childbirth in the presence of trained birth...
Woman using ATM in the Philippines

Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf
Dean Karlan
Wes Yin
Researchers designed and implemented a commitment savings product called a SEED (Save, Earn, Enjoy Deposits) account, which restricted access to savings, thus potentially helping with either self-control or family-control issues. After one year, the commitment savings product led to increased...
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The Impact of Credit-Scoring on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Lending and Performance in the Philippines

Gharad Bryan
Pamela Jakiela
Dean Karlan
Daniel Keniston
Researchers are working with a large bank in the Philippines, using random assignment to offer loans to SME applicants who fall just below the threshold to be automatically approved for a loan. Comparing firms that received the loans to a similar group that did not will allow for a better...
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The Impact of a Christian Values Program on Wellbeing in the Philippines

Gharad Bryan
James Choi
Dean Karlan
In the Philippines, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to measure the impact of an evangelical Protestant religious values and theology education program on individuals' economic and subjective wellbeing.
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Returns to Consulting in the Philippines

Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
Researchers in the Philippines are examining the various constraints hindering SME growth and evaluating whether graduate business students can effectively teach management skills and improve small business performance.
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The Impact of Financial Education for Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore

Rashmi Barua
Kartini Shastry
Dean Yang
Researchers evaluated the impact of a financial literacy program for Filipino domestic workers based in Singapore on their financial knowledge, behavior, savings, and remittances. While there was no evidence that being invited to join the program had any impact on financial knowledge or behavior...
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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...
Women receiving financial literacy training in the Philippines

The Psychology of Debt: An Experiment in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Researchers are testing whether giving vendors money to pay off their outstanding debts or offering financial literacy trainings can help break these borrowers' cycles of debt.