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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
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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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The Impact of Mask Distribution and Promotion on Mask Uptake and Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Jason Abaluck
Laura H Kwong
Ashley Styczynski
Ashraful Haque
Md. Alamgir Kabir
Ellen Bates-Jefferys
Emily Crawford
Jade Benjamin-Chung
Salim Benhachmi
Shabib Raihan
Shadman Rahman
Neeti Zaman
Peter J. Winch
Md. Maqsud Hossain
Hasan Mahmud Reza
Stephen P. Luby
Mushfiq Mobarak
Researchers partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and Bangladeshi policymakers to test various strategies to increase mask-wearing and assess the impact of community mask wearing on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates. They found that a four-part intervention tripled mask usage and increased physical...
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The Effects of Subsidized Trainings on Young Workers and Small Firms: Evidence from Uganda

Livia Alfonsi
Oriana Bandiera
Vittorio Bassi
Robin Burgess
Imran Rasul
Munshi Sulaiman
Anna Vitali
Researchers evaluated the impact of offering either subsidized vocational training to unemployed youth or subsidized apprenticeships for firms on youth employment and earning outcomes in urban Uganda. Both forms of subsidized training led to greater skill accumulation, higher employment rates, and...
A woman sells fruit to another woman at a market stand while both are wearing face masks over their mouth and nose.

The Impact of Cash Transfers on Female Entrepreneurs’ Business Outcomes during Covid-19 in Kenya

Wyatt Brooks
Kevin Donovan
Terence Johnson
Jackline Oluoch-Aridi
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing cash transfers to female entrepreneurs during the pandemic on their business outcomes and behavior. Firm profit, inventory spending, and food expenditures all increased for business owners that received the cash transfer...