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Online Customer Discrimination against Female Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erin Kelley
Gregory Lane
Matthew Pecenco
Edward Rubin
Researchers evaluated the impact of gender-based discrimination on female teleworkers’ productivity in online sales interactions with customers in Africa. When a customer chat representative had a female-sounding name, it led to significantly fewer purchases, and slower and more reserved reactions...

The Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cash Transfers on High-Risk Young Men in Liberia

Chris Blattman
Sebastian Chaskel
Julian Jamison
Margaret Sheridan
To understand the long-term effectiveness of CBT among adults, researchers evaluated the impact of a short-term CBT program and the distribution of unconditional cash transfers on the behavior of high-risk young men in Liberia. CBT reduced criminal behavior among participants both in the short run...

Community Driven Development in Sierra Leone

Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel
Maarten Voors
Researchers studied the impact of a community driven development program in Sierra Leone in the short and long-run and contrasted it with a technocratic approach to delegate the management of development projects to high skill individuals. In the short term, the CDD program increased the stock of...
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Community Reconciliation in Sierra Leone

Jacobus Cilliers
Oeindrila Dube
Bilal Siddiqi
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Addressing Bias by Promoting Women to Management Positions in Bangladesh

Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff
Researchers randomly assigned co-supervisors to production lines to evaluate the impact of exposing garment factory workers and supervisors to women managers on factory productivity, supervisor retention, and attitudes toward women. Several months after the intervention, there was no difference in...
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Encouraging Paid Sick Leave among Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Laura Boudreau
Rachel M. Heath
Manufacturing jobs can improve women’s economic empowerment, but health issues or caretaking often drive women out of the labor force. In partnership with a large garment Banladeshi manufactory firm, researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of text messages about paid...
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Information and Gender Differences in University Economics Courses and Majors in the United States

Daniel Halim
Elizabeth T. Powers
Rebecca Thornton
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing information to students on their decision to pursue courses and majors in economics at a public university in the United States. The intervention increased male students' likelihood of studying additional economics courses...
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The Impact of a Multi-faceted Livelihoods Program on Low-income Households in India

Abhijit Banerjee
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Esther Duflo
Nathanael Goldberg
Dean Karlan
Robert Osei
William Pariente
Jeremy Shapiro
Garima Sharma
Bram Thuysbaert
Christopher Udry
In India, researchers partnered with Bandhan Konnagar to evaluate the impact of a multi-faceted livelihoods program known as the Graduation approach, which aims to encourage occupational change among people living in extreme poverty. The Graduation approach had large and positive effects on economic...